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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.ÌýHis first book,ÌýThe Emergence of Mexican America,Ìýwon the Thomas J. Lyon Best Book Award.ÌýHis second book,ÌýUNDOCUMENTS, recently won the Kayden Award and Pope Award.
He has edited, introducedÌýand translated two books for the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and has published widely in scholarship, essays, memoir, creative nonfictionÌýand poetry. He was the curator ofÌýEl Laboratorio, a literary space for Latinx writers, andÌýco-creator ofÌýCrossBorders, an international collective of writers and artists engaging borders.ÌýHe teaches creative nonfiction, writing studies, Latinx studies, 19thÌýcentury American literature and culture and documentary studies.