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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

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	Names Above Houses 4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2001	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Furious Lullaby 4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem for the Orchard 4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Creative Writers on Class by Oliver de la Paz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matthea Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sonya Huber (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry by Stacey Lynn Brown (Editor), Oliver de la Paz (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O&S (Oranges & Sardines Volume 2, Issue 1, 2009 by Billy Collins, Tony Trigilio (Goodreads Author), Daryl Rogers 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Asian American Literary Review by Lawrence-Minh Davis, David Mura (Contribution by), Cathy Song (Contribution by) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocho #20 by Kemel Zaldivar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabriel Gudding, J. Brian Long 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 7: by Jeremy

Jan 24, 2008 01:13am

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

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message 6: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 02:19pm

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 :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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message 5: by Jeremy

Dec 24, 2007 12:05am

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 :)

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message 4: by Oliver

Jul 30, 2007 10:11pm

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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message 3: by Bryan

Jul 30, 2007 10:04pm

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

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message 2: by Oliver

Jul 25, 2007 09:40am

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

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message 1: by Alexander

Jul 25, 2007 09:37am

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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