Alberto rios biography

Alberto Álvaro Ríos was born on September 18, , in Nogales, Arizona. He received a BA degree in , a second BA in , and an MFA in creative writing in , all from the University of Arizona.

Ríos is the author of thirteen books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, a memoir, and a novel.

His poetry collections include Every Sound Is Not a Wolf (Copper Canyon Press, ); Not Go Away is My Name (Copper Canyon Press, ); A Small Story about the Sky (Copper Canyon Press, ); The Dangerous Shirt (Copper Canyon Press, ); The Theater of Night (Copper Canyon Press, ), winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, along with The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (Copper Canyon Press, ), a finalist for the National Book Award; Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses (W.

W. Norton, ); The WarringtonPoems (Pyracantha Press, ); The Lime Orchard Woman (Sheep Meadow Press, ); Five Indiscretions (Sheep Meadow Press, ); and Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Mead