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Javier Zamora (born 1990) [ 1] is a Salvadoran poet and activist. [ 2] Early life. Zamora was born in San Luis La Herradura, El Salvador [ 3] and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents in California. [ 4][ 2] Education.
In his debut New York Times bestselling memoir, SOLITO (Hogarth, September 2022), Javier retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert. He travelled unaccompanied by boat, bus, and foot.
Sep 15, 2022 · Sept. 29, 2020. In his new memoir, “Solito,” Zamora recounts his days crossing the scorching Sonoran Desert, getting detained by Border Patrol agents, meeting strangers...
Javier Zamora is a Salvadoran poet who writes about immigration. His first collection, Unaccompanied, retraces his own migration at the age of nine.
Zamora is the author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and his chapbook Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years won the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Contest.
Sep 5, 2022 · Decades after traveling without his parents from El Salvador to the U.S. as a 9-year-old — a journey that almost killed him — Zamora describes the experience in a memoir.
Sep 5, 2017 · Poetry — Javier Zamora. Javier’s experience and message are crucial amid today’s political confusions, and we look to him as a beacon to the future. Zamora details his experience emigrating from El Salvador to the U.S. at age nine in his timely and excellent debut, a heartbreaking account of leaving behind the grandmother who raised him ...
Sep 19, 2017 · When the Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora was nine years old, he travelled alone to the United States, crossing the border on foot to reunite with his family. Now twenty-seven, he has...
Javier Zamora. Read poems by this poet. Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990, and he migrated to the United States in 1999. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from New York University.
Javier Zamora’s debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, published by Copper Canyon Press in September, chronicles his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States following the Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) and its aftermath. And while his poems tell the particular story of the U.S.-backed violence that ravaged Central ...