Roberto Tejada

Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections that include Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010) and Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006). Todo en el agora (Libros Magenta, 2015) features selected poems translated into Spanish by poets Alfonso D’Aquino, Gabriel Bernal Granados, and Omar Pérez. He founded and co-edited the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, a multilingual annual of poetry and translation (1991-2014), and is the author of art histories that include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009); a monograph on pioneering Mexican-American conceptual artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (Minnesota, 2009), and such catalog essays as Los Angeles Snapshots in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011). He is faculty in the Creative Writing Program and Art History Department at the University of Houston.