R. A. Villanueva is a Filipino American poet. His debut collection, Reliquaria, won the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.
Early life and education Villanueva was born in New Jersey, United States, and graduated from Rutgers University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He holds an MFA degree from New York University.
Career Villanueva's writing has appeared online at Guernica, Prac Crit, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as in print publications such as Poetry, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Ambit, and DIAGRAM. His work has also been featured by the Academy of American Poets and on BBC Radio London. Villanueva's poem, "Life Drawing", was the focus of the December 4, 2020, episode of the podcast Poetry Unbound.
Awards His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes and the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for Poetry, and fellowships from Kundiman, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Asian American Literary Review.
Works
See also
List of poets from the United States List of Rutgers University people
References
External links
Author page Video: from the P.O.P. series by the Academy of American Poets Audio: recording of R. A. Villanueva, with Ishion Hutchinson, Anne Carson and Robert Currie > September 21, 2014 at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop Audio: "Fish Heads" > March 30, 2020 episode of The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith Interview: Oxford Poetry > Winter 2017 with Mary Jean Chan Interview: APIA Kundiman poetry series > May 21, 2014 with The Best American Poetry Interview: National Book Critics Circle: Small Press Spotlight > September 15, 2014 with Rigoberto González Review: The Rumpus > March 14, 2015 > Review by Kenji C. Liu of Reliquaria