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Nathan Xavier Osorio

Nathan Xavier Osorio is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, winner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America’s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. He is also a PhD candidate in literature and creative/critical writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. icon

The Borderland between Language and Genre

By Nathan Xavier Osorio

Within western poetry, women writers of color—and their lived experiences—are not nearly as recognized nor represented as their white peers.

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