Robert Paul Moreira

Robert Paul Moreira teaches fiction and playwriting at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. From 2013-2019, he served as Managing Editor of riverSedge: a Journal of Art and Literature.​ He is the editor of ¡Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latina/o Baseball Fiction (2013). His award-winning short fiction, interviews, criticism, and scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Southwest American Literature, Aethlon, Azahares, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Cobalt Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Soccer and Society, and the anthologies SOL: English Writing From Mexico (2010); Along the River 2 (2012); and New Border Writing (2013). He is the recipient of two fiction awards from the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2011 Wendy Barker Award, and the 2016 NACCS Tejas FOCO Fiction Award for his short story collection, Scores. Most recently, his hybrid collection, Dig, made the longlists for PANK's 2020 Big Book Contest and Dzanc Books 2020 Diverse Voices Prize. Dig will be published by Frayed Edge Press in Fall 2022.

As a dramatist, Robert's plays include Roses From Castile, Miriam's Song, Proxima b, Dick Tea, and Kiki, a children's play. Malinalli, a musical in collaboration with Josiah Esquivel, will be published by FlowerSong Press in 2021.

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