Octavio Quintanilla, a semifinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 2024, will be making his first apparance at the Tucson Festival of Books. His longlisted collection was "The Book of Wounded Sparrow."
Quintanilla's newest book is "The Impossible Hours," released in February by University of Arizona Press.
A former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, he teaches literature and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
Awards: National Book Award, Ambroggio Prize
Communities: Hispanic or Latinx
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