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Roberto Tejada Bio: Roberto Tejada was born in Los Angeles, California. From 1987 to 1997 he lived and worked in Mexico City where he founded the English-Spanish journal Mandorla: New Writing From the Americas, an annual of advanced poetry and poetics. His poetry has been featured in United States and Mexico, including Sulfur, ACTS, O.blek, Global City Review, apex of the M, Trafika, and The Poetry Project, as well as in The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1993-1994 and The Best American Poetry 1996. He edited En algún otro lado (Editorial Vuelta, 1992), an anthology of twentieth-century poems on Mexico written by North American and British poets. His art writing and catalog essays include Graciela Iturbide: Images of the Spirit (Aperture Books, 1996), and In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo (J. Paul Getty Museum), an exhibition on which he served as guest curator. He has written for Afterimage, Aperture, SF Camerawork, and is the author of Gift + Verdict (Leroy, 1999) and---in collaboration with artist Thomas Glassford--Amulet Anatomy (Phylum, 2001), and Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006). He is associate professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. |
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