Juan Felipe Herrera

(b.1948)

Awards: LA Times (2015)

Novels

   Crash Boom Love (1999)
   Cinnamon Girl (2005)
   Downtown Boy (2005)
   Skatefate (2011)

Collections

   Exiles of Desire (poems) (1983)
   Facegames (poems) (1987)
   The Roots of a Thousand Embraces (poems) (1987)
   Night Train to Tuxtla (poems) (1994)
   Love After the Riots (poems) (1996)
   Mayan Drifter (poems) (1997)
   Laughing Out Loud, I Fly (poems) (1998)
   Border-crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (poems) (1998)
   Thunderweavers (poems) (2000)
   Giraffe On Fire (poems) (2000)
   Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems (poems) (2001)
   Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler (poems) (2002)
   187 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border (poems) (2007)
   Half of the World in Light (poems) (2008)
   Notes on the Assemblage (poems) (2015)
   Jabber-Walking (poems) (2018)
   Every Day We Get More Illegal (poems) (2020)
   Akrilica (poems) (2022)
   Rebozos of love (poems) (2023)
   California Brown (poems) (2024)

Novellas and Short Stories

Super Cilantro Girl / La Supernina del Cilantro (2022)

Books containing stories by Juan Felipe Herrera

Tales of Two Americas (2017)
edited by
John Freeman

Awards

2015 Robert Kirsch Award

Juan Felipe Herrera recommends

Nazare (2021)
JJ Amaworo Wilson
"I celebrate this novel for its sea village textures, its power-driven tides of story and characters, shaped and painted as if they were figures rising up from the buried truths of an ancient ocean and its peoples. The materials are multilayered with whale skin, song names, the breath of brujas and the whispers of old men and widowed women. There is tenderness, transcendence and the voyages into the unknown we all seek to enter and be reborn. Amaworo Wilson's dexterity, abundant materials, culture lens and visual genius gives us a rare, ground-shaking novel, a tidal wave of prizes."

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