Eduardo C. Corral

About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Location United States
Introduction Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Interests 20th Century Poetry, Chicano/a Studies.
Favorite Music Belle & Sebastian, Cyndi Lauper, Leonard Cohen, Juan Gabriel, LCD Soundsystem, REM, The Smiths, Tears for Fears, Arthur Russell, a-ha, Camera Obscura, Radiohead
Favorite Books Robert Hayden, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Robert Vasquez, Donald Justice, James Merill, Norman Dubie, Ronald Johnson, Jean Valentine, Bei Dao, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Bernard Malamud, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Larry Levis, Ted Hughes, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cynthia Cruz