Alfred Arteaga

Alfred Arteaga (1950 – July 4, 2008) was a Mexican-American poet, writer, and scholar. He was noted as an important poet of the Chicano Movement, who also contributed to the foundations postcolonial and ethnic studies.

Themes He envisioned Chicano identity as a product of hybridity. For Arteaga, part of the Chicano worldview is seeing the world beyond binaries, or as speaking from spaces of overlapping nature that are more ambiguous than the nation state.

Biography Arteaga was born in East Los Angeles and raised in Whittier, California. He attended Monte Vista High School, which has since been converted to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's academy. He received a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University in 1974, and a master's degree and doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He won the Chicano Literary Prize in 1975.

He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship (1993–94), a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry (1995), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (1998).