Fernando Carrera

Fernando Carrera (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1983) is the author of the poetry collections Expresión de fuego (2007), Donde el tacto (2011), Là où le toucher / Donde el tacto (2015), Fuego a voluntad (2018) and Fuego a voluntad / Fire of Volition (2020). He has received numerous awards including the National Poetry Prize Horacio Zúñiga de los Juegos Florales of Toluca 2017 and the National Award for Young Literature Salvador Gallardo Dávalos 2010, both in Mexico. Additionally, he’s been awarded creative writing grants from the Federal Secretary of Culture and of Jalisco state in 2008-2009 and in 2010-2011. His work has been translated into numerous languages such as: English, French, Italian, Greek, Albanese, Turkish among others. In the USA he has been published in the International Poetry Review, the Osiris Poetry Journal, Latin American Literature Today and in 2020 he was the single Latin American author selected by Pushcart Prize recipient, Ravi Shankar, to be included in Meridian, a prestigious international anthology edited by the APWT & the Drunken Boat Press.