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Oliver de la Paz

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February 27, 1972 in Philippines

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Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Ontario, Oregon. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and has taught creative writing at Arizona State University, Gettysburg College, Utica College, and Western Washington University where he is an Associate Professor. His work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, North American Review, Third Coast, Asian Pacific American Journal, in the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation .and elsewhere. Names Above Houses, a book of his prose and verse, was a winner of the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2001. His second book,Furious Lullaby, was published in 2007 by Southern Illinois Univers...more


Average rating: 4.46 · 151 ratings · 18 reviews · 8 distinct works
Names Above Houses
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2001
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Furious Lullaby
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Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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Jeremy Hey Oliver!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


Oliver Ahoy, Bryan! Things are going swimmingly. Just finishing up the last of my summer teaching. How're things in your neck-o-the-woods?


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Bryan Worra Say, hey, Oliver! Hope all is well out there! :)


Oliver Hey Alex,


Ah, Sarah! She's lovely. I'm glad you bumped into her.

Also, your book shouldn't be in my to-read list. It's been read and loved.

Cheers!

O


Alexander I was just at MacDowell and Sarah Gambito said to me, Of course you know Oliver de la Paz. And I said, No, I don't. And then I saw you here. So, hello. And thanks for adding my book to your to-read list.


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