About Alberto Alvaro Ríos: A Profile

Alberto Alvaro Ríos won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first collection of poetry,
Whispering to Fool the Wind. Other volumes of poetry include
The Lime Orchard Woman (1988),
Five Indiscretions (1985), and
Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses (1990), which has just been reissued by W. W. Norton in paperback. He is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1984, he won the Western States Book Award for
The Iguana Killer, a collection of stories. Ríos lives in Chandler, Arizona, and is Professor of English at Arizona State University. He was featured in the PBS documentary
Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic.