Deborah Paredez

Deborah Paredez
Born1970
San Antonio, Texas
OccupationProfessor, poet
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materBA, Trinity University;
PhD, Northwestern University
GenrePoetry, Essays
SpouseFrank Andre Guridy

Deborah Paredez (born December 19, 1970) is an American poet, scholar, and cultural critic. She is the author of the poetry collections, Year of the Dog and This Side of Skin, and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. She is co-founder (and served as co-director, 2009-2019, 2021-2023) of CantoMundo, a national organization that supports Latinx poets and poetry.[1] She lives in New York City where she is a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.

  1. ^ "About Us | CantoMundo". www.cantomundo.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2018-04-10.