Rigoberto González is a poet and author born in Bakersfield California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of California, Riverside, and graduate degrees from the University of California, Davis, and Arizona State University. González is also the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships.
Some of González’s poetic works include So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks (1999), Unpeopled Eden (2013), and The Book of Ruin (2019). He has also written many prose works, including the children’s book Antonio’s Card (2005), the novel Crossing Vines (2003), and the book of stories Men without Bliss (2008).
Currently, González is a professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
Information from the Poetry Foundation and González’s website.
