We dedicate the eighth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Juan Felipe Herrera.
David Wagoner
Lan Lan
Jennine Capo Crucet
Barry Yourgrau
John Calderazzo
Timothy Marsh
Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, musician, educator, and painter who has for decades been recognized as one of the most influential talents in the Chicano Literary movement. Herrera has written numerous collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and children’s books, and was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Half the World In Light, and has also received the Pura Belpre Honors Award, the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. After serving as chair of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department at CSU Fresno for many years, Herrera joined the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, as Tomas Rivera Endowed chair.
