Edward Vidaurre
Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet and author of eight collections of poetry, including Cry, Howl (Prickly Pear Publishing, 2021) and By Throat, By Miracle: New & Selected Poems (Luchadora Press, 2023). His writings have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Texas Observer, and Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as in other journals and anthologies. He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of FlowerSong Press and its sister imprint Juventud Press, as well as the founder of Pasta, Poetry & Vino and Barrio Poet Productions. He was the 2018-2019 City of McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate; a recipient of an Award of Merit 2020 by The Philosophical Society of Texas for Best Book of Poetry by a Texas Author; and a 2022 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters. Vidaurre—a Californian of Salvadoran ancestry born in East Los Angeles and transplanted to the Texas borderlands—resides in McAllen, TX with his wife and daughter, where they foster dogs in need until they find their forever homes.
