Alejandro Lucero
Writer, Editor, Educator
About
Alejandro Lucero is a writer, editor, and educator from Sapello, New Mexico. Winner of the 2021 Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and a 2X Best of the Net nominee for 2022, his chapbook manuscript, Sapello Son, was named a semifinalist for the Two Sylvias Press 2022 Chapbook Prize and Beloit Poetry Journal’s 2022 Chad Walsh Prize. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in the The Adroit Journal, Booth, The Cincinnati Review, The Offing, Nashville Review, The Pinch, Pidgeonholes, Porter House Review, Quarterly West, Salamander, and Salt Hill, where he was a finalist for the Philip Booth Prize judged by Matt Rasmussen. He is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado-Denver, where he serves as an associate editor for Copper Nickel. Alejandro was recently a June Fellow at the 2022 Bucknell University Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. He is the lead writing center consultant at Arapahoe Community College, and lives in the Denver area with his wife, Karen, and chihuahua, Nellie, aka Nine Inch Nellz.
Contact
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