John-Michael Rivera is a professor of English and humanities and the former director for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder.听His first book,听The Emergence of Mexican America,听won the Thomas J. Lyon Best Book Award.听His second book,听UNDOCUMENTS, recently won the Kayden Award and Pope Award.
He has edited, introduced听and translated two books for the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and has published widely in scholarship, essays, memoir, creative nonfiction听and poetry. He was the curator of听El Laboratorio, a literary space for Latinx writers, and听co-creator of听CrossBorders, an international collective of writers and artists engaging borders.听He teaches creative nonfiction, writing studies, Latinx studies, 19th听century American literature and culture and documentary studies.