Most Recent: September 12, 2018
Richard Vargas earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin and Richard Lee. He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, and twelve issues of The Mas Tequila Review from 2010-2015. Vargas received his MFA from the University of New Mexico, 2010. He was recipient of the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference’s Hispanic Writer Award, and was on the faculty of the 2012 10th National Latino Writers Conference and the 2015 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Currently, he resides in Rockford, IL. Published collections: McLife, 2005; American Jesus, 2009; Guernica, revisited, 2014.