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Diego Báez
Paraguayan-American poet, writer, and educator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Diego Báez is a poet, writer, educator, and abolitionist who lives in Chicago.
Early life
Báez is of Paraguayan-American descent.[1][2] He grew up in central Illinois.[3][4]
Education
He received an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University in Newark.[3][5]
Career
Báez writes fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, essays, and poetry.[6] His poetry touches on many themes, including the Guaraní and American experiences, hyphenate identities, colonialism, cultural erasure, nostalgia, and music.[1][7][8][9] His writing has also explored "the way globalizing language flattens the interplay and overlap of capital, ethnic identity, race, place, and nation."[7] He writes in English, Guaraní, and Spanish.[1]
His work has been published in the Boston Globe, Granta, Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.[10][11] Báez published Yaguareté White, a collection of poems, in 2024.[1]
He was the inaugural fellow at CantoMundo in 2010 and has received fellowships at the Surge Institute, as well as the Poetry Foundation's Incubator for Community-Engaged Poet.[1][2][12][13]
He teaches at the City Colleges in Chicago in interdisciplinary studies.[11][14]
Personal life
Báez identifies as an abolitionist.[7][15] He also has an interest in Formula One racing.[8][16]
References
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