Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Juan Felipe Herrera, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Biography

Juan Felipe Herrera is the Poet Laureate of California. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Half the World in Light” (2008) and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1990, Herrera was a distinguished teaching fellow at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and he has taught elsewhere, including in prisons. His latest collection is “Senegal Taxi (Camino del Sol).”