Emmy Pérez

Emmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate 2025, is the author of the poetry collections "Solstice, With the River on Our Face," and the forthcoming "Paper america: New and Selected Poems." Her work also appears in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and other publications.

She is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, and United States Artists. A graduate of the University of Southern California and Columbia University, she has been a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop since 2008. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she has lived in the Texas border region for 25 years. She is a professor of Creative Writing and an affiliate faculty member in Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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