Leo Ríos

Leo Ríos was born in Delano, California, and has studied at UCLA, the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and Cornell University. His short story “Dirty Dishes” won The Arkansas International’s inaugural Emerging Writer’s Prize. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Vagabond

I. My madrina and I right away got a truckload of watermelons from a neighboring rancho, to keep us hydrated for the two months we’d be working. We—me being a twelve-year-old boy but strong like a freaking tiger homie, she being my fifty-year-old godmother, XXL because her meals had lard plus no small amount of […]

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The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

on The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems by Arthur Sze

on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Good Neighbors (on Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and...

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

Summer 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

on The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems by Arthur Sze

on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Good Neighbors (on Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and...

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

Summer 2021

Leo Ríos

Vagabond

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[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...