Rane Arroyo
Professor, University of Toledo
email: ranearryo@gmail.com
Board Member, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2004—present
Ph.D. 1994: American Literature/Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Dissertation: Babel, U.S.A.: A Writer of Color Rethinks the Chicago Renaissance.
2008 The Roswell Poems, WordFarm Press
2005 The Portable Famine, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City
2002 Home Movies of Narcissus, University of Arizona Press: Camino del Sol Series.
1998 Pale Ramón. Zoland Books, Cambridge MA.
1996 The Singing Shark. Bilingual Press/Arizona State University Press, Tempe AZ
1993 Columbus’ Orphan. JVC Press, Arcadia FL.
Forthcoming
Same-Sex Séances (New Sins Press)
The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press)
The Sky’s Weight (Turning Point Press)
2005 How To Name A Hurricane, University of Arizona Press
Don Quixote Goes To The Moon (Ahadada Press)
Weekends in Ohio With Ghosts (Last Minute Press)
The Naked Thief (Stonewall Books)
The Red Bed (Sonora Review)
Awards & Honors
2007--Poetry Foundation Online's #2 most read poem of the year for "Always," 2007—Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, included in Heath Anthology of Contemporary Literature, 2006 Pushcart Nomination (ongoing) for one-act play, “A Lesson In Writing Love Letters,” 2006 Cesar Chavez Visiting Writer, ForeWord Magazine Honorable Mention winner for Poetry Book of the Year for The Portable Famine, the John Ciardi Poetry Prize for The Portable Famine, Gwendolyn Brooks Prize For A Poem: “The Immigrants (Winter Wear),” Carl Sandburg Poetry Award for The Singing Shark, 1st Prize in Poetry for the Hart Crane Memorial Award, George Houston Bass Drama Award (Brown University), Pushcart Prize, Sonora Review/University of Arizona’s National Chapbook Contest for The Red Bed poems, Stonewall Books National Chapbook Contest for The Naked Thief.
Anthologies: sample listing from 2005 to present
After The Bell: Contemporary Prose About School. Edited by Maggie Anderson & David Hassler. University of Iowa Press.
Everything I Have Is Blue. Ed. by Wendell Ricketts, Suspect Thoughts Press.
Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume E, Contemporary Period: 1945 to the present (5th Edition). Editor: Dr. Paul Lauter, Houghton Mifflin.
Lengua Fresca. Ed. by Ilan Stavans. Houghton Mifflin.
Mariposas: Gay Puerto Rican Poems. edited by Emanuel Xavier. Floricante Press.
OtheRicans: Writings from the Greater Puerto Rican Diaspora. Edited by Aurora Levins Morales. In-progress.
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing From the Antilles. Edited by Thomas Glave. Duke University Press.
Telling Tongues: Latino/a Anthology on Language Experience. Edited by Louis Mendoza and Toni Nelson-Herrera. Calaca Press: 25-31.
Associated Writing Programs (Norfolk, VA)
College English Association (Harrisburg, VA)
Dramatists Guild (New York City)
Poets and Writers (New York City)
Modern Language Association (New York City)
Magazine Publications include Poems in:
Agni Review Online, The Alembic, Americas Review, Amherst Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Antioch Review, Appalachee Review, Asphodel, Barrow Street, Bayou, Beloit Review, Bryant Review, Caliban, Calapooya Review, Callaloo, Caribbean Writer, Cimarron Review, Clare, Confrontation, Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Field, Folio, Evansville Review, Folio, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Heartlands Today, Heliotrope, Home Planet News, Hotel Amerika, Horizontes, Into the Teeth of the Wind, James White Review, Janus Head, Kenyon Review, Louisville Review, Many Mountains Moving, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Midwest Poetry, Minnetonka Review, Off The Rocks, Ohio Review, Pennsylvania Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Ploughshares, Pool, Poems and Plays, Poetry Foundation Online, Poetry International, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Quarterly West, Rattle, Red Mountain Review, Riversedge, Riverwind, Roger, Runes, Slant, Solo, Southern Indiana Review, Spelman’s Focus, Square Lake, Valparaiso Review, Whirligig, Water-Stone, Whiskey Island, and Xavier Review.