Javier Zamora is a Salvadoran poet and literary activist. He was born in La Herradura, El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at age nine. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and was a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow with the Poetry Foundation; he is the first Central American to receive these fellowships.

Zamora recently published his first poetry collection Unaccompanied and is currently on a book tour. Find him at the Poetry Foundation on Thursday March 22, and at the Women & Children First bookstore in Andersonville on Friday March 23. Plus, ‘global citizen,’ Nari Safavi, shares how to have an international good time this weekend without ever having to leave Chicago.

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Javier Zamora, author of Unaccompanied

Nari Safavi, WBEZ contributor