Congratulations to Javier Zamora, who has received a 2024 Whiting Award honoring his non-fiction and poetry! Read the full recipient profile of Javier here, and find the full list of this year’s recipients here. And discover SOLITO (Hogarth 2022) here.
From the Whiting Selection Committee:
This is a powerful writer, a brilliant writer, a necessary writer. Javier Zamora’s two absorbing books – watchful, incantatory poems and an unsparing memoir – tunnel deeply into the experience of crossing the border as a child, and then widen to consider those who leave and those who stay, the rent in the fabric of family and how it might be mended. His work transmutes testimony into art; whatever he turns his eye on next will also enlarge us.
