Gloria VandoGLORIA VANDO was born in New York City-the first member of her family to be born stateside-and educated there and in Amsterdam, Paris, and Texas. Her first book of poems, Promesas: Geography of the Impossible Arte Publico Press), won the Thorpe Menn ook Award and was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award. Her latest book, Shadows & Supposes (Arte Público Press), won the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Latino Literary Hall of Fame's Poetry Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and on the Grammy-nominated Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006. She is the recipient of the 2009 Poetry Award from El Instituto de Puerto Rico, NY; the first Kansas Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship; two Billee Murray Denny Prizes; a River Styx International Poetry Award; and others. She is publisher and editor of Helicon Nine Editions, for which she received the CLMP Editor's Grant and the Governor's Arts Award (Kansas).She is also a contributing editor to the North American Review. In 1992 she and her husband, Bill Hickok, founded The Writers Place, a literary center, library, and art gallery in Kansas City, Missouri Read More Read Less