Deborah Paredez is the author of the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), and of the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. She is the Co-Founder of CantoMundo, a national association for Latinx poets, and a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.

Books by Deborah Paredez:

Other poems on the web by Deborah Paredez:
Six poems
Eigth poems
Two poems
"The Gulf, 1987"

Deborah Paredez's Website.

Deborah Paredez According to Wikipedia.

Deborah Paredez on Twitter.

About Year of the Dog:

"Deborah Paredez's book The Year of the Dog presents a palimpsest of grief howling at the exposed face of Empire. Mixing myth, memory, image, and textual documentary, her verse invents, fragments, constructs, and disfigures. Collectively the poems speak with chilling and touching clarity as they address systemic brutality and militarized power in service to state, nation, and whiteness. This book is fierce, moving, and necessary."
—Hoa Nguyen

"In this striking and powerful collection, Deborah Paredez explores the personal and mythical dimensions of war. Weaving images with autobiography, history with poetry, and self with family, Year of the Dog is an essential work for understanding how war is connected to every facet of our lives."
—Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Deborah Paredez's new collection, Year of the Dog, is a hauntingly beautiful collage, poems that move seamlessly between the close-up, intimate detail to a bird's-eye view of history—like looking at one small segment of a large canvas then stepping back to take in the whole arresting sweep of it. Here, what it means to contend with grief, to live in the aftermath of national and personal trauma—the casualties and collateral damage of war and injustice—is in the hands of an unflinching witness. This is the inheritance of a poet born in the year of the dog: bound to the duty of remembering and to singing the names of the dead and the living in a voice turned again and again 'into something essential.'"
—Natasha Trethewey

"Deborah Paredez's Year of the Dog refuses to lay static on white space. Time is a character in this engaging collection, beginning in the tumultuous late '60s and reaching into now, today. Each poem becomes lyrical evidence laid before us—personal—and reckoned with. One feels the timeline has been lived. Yet, borders are crossed, fences jumped, and experimental detours—even graphic renderings—hold it all together. The echo of war and protest lingers. Paredez's Year of the Dog is a song for now, as one confronts recent history through needful reflection."
—Yusef Komunyakaa