DAVId CRUZ

David Cruz, PhD Student University of Washington Seattle and graduate of MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing student at The University of Texas at El Paso. His areas of interest are the interactions of digital humanities and how they coexist with politics and epistemological emancipations to help build the national imaginaries, with a focus in Central American and Mexican poetry. Other areas of study are visual poetry and crypto art (NFT) and Latin American cinema . David is a writer, recently a finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2020 and and winner of the Manuel Acuña International Poetry Prize 2021. Published 3 poetry books: A ella le gusta llorar mientras escucha The Beatles, published in Spain and translated into English in the United States; Trasatlántico, Premio Luis Cardoza y Aragón; and Natación nocturna, Premio Nacional Joven Creación (Costa Rica). He has also given ludic workshops for detained children, with a bilingual focus, next to his academic work. In El Paso, Texas he was Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual magazine Rio Grande Review, a collaborator of New York Poetry Review and writes the blog Casi Literal about art and culture.