Our Organization

Co-coordination is provided by Francisco Aragón, Esperanza Hope Snyder, and Spencer Reece. The Executive Director of the Prize is Elizabeth Moe.

The Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize is a member of EcoTheo Collective, who serve as our fiscal sponsor. Further logistical support is provided by Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.

Our Advisory Circle

Richard Blanco

F. Douglas Brown 

Blas Falconer

Laura García-Lorca de los Ríos

Jennifer Grotz

Raina J. León

Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Luis Muñoz

Mark Wunderlich

Our Prize Judges

Ruben Quesada (2019)

Carmen Giménez Smith (2022)

Credits

Our logo includes a portion of one of Federico García Lorca’s signature drawings (“Lorca” with a personified crescent moon and its reflection) that the poet-playwright dedicated to his beloved theater collaborator, Margarita Xirgu in 1935. After Lorca’s assassination in 1936, Xirgu would commit the remaining thirty-three years of her life and career in exile to the regeneration of her friend’s artistic corpus in Latin America. The complete original drawing is part of the Margarita Xirgu family archive (“Dedicatoria de Federico García Lorca en el libro de firmas de Margarita Xirgu Rico, Archivo familiar Prats Prat” http://margaritaxirgu.es/castellano/vivencia2/63lorcac/63lorcac.htm).

Watercolor images featured on our website are by Spencer Reece. “Coffee in my room at the Catedral del Redentor, Madrid, Spain, April 2015” was previously published in All the Beauty Still Left: A Poet’s Painted Book of Hours (Turtle Point Press, 2021).