Paul S FloresCo-Editor & Translator Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country and a nationally respected arts educator. He creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word about transnationality and citizenship that spr and support societal movements that lead to change. Flores' ability to paint a vivid picture of the bi-cultural Latino experience is shaped by his personal background and experience growing up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His body of work touches on the immigrant story in all its complexities: from the violent-forced migration, gang life, war, incarceration, and separated families-to zooming in on intergenerational relationships and the struggle of preserving important cultural values.As a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American heritage, Paul S. Flores has built a national reputation for interview-based theater and bilingual spoken word. He integrates Latino and indigenous healing practices to tell the stories of real people impacted by immigration and systemic inequalities. Flores appeared on Season 3 and 4 of HBO's Def Poetry. He is the author of the plays We Have Iré, which premiered in 2019 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo; and On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto, as well as the novel Along the Border Lies which won the 2003 PEN Oakland Award. Flores is the author of the 2024 American Book Award winner We Still Be: Poems and Performances on El Martillo Press. Flores' work has played across the United States and internationally, from Def Poetry on HBO to the International Poetry Festival of La Habana, Cuba, Teatro Centenario México, and El Salvador. Paul is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner and an inaugural NALAC Catalyst for Change awardee. His commissions have come from Creative Capital, La Peña Cultural Center, MACLA, MAP Fund, Pregones Theater, Su Teatro, National Performance Network, SF Arts Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and many more. Flores teaches theater at the University of San Francisco. He is the lead curator of Paseo Artistico Free Bilingual Community Art Stroll on 24th Street in the Mission District, and Co-Principal researcher for the National Institutes of Health funded project Somos Esenciales/We Are Essential with Cultura y Arte Nativo de las Americas (CANA SF). He lives in San Francisco with his children. Read More Read Less