About Naomi Ayala

A Washington, DC resident since 1997, Naomi Ayala is the author of three books of poetry – Wild Animals on the Moon (Curbstone Press); This Side of Early (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press); and Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations (Bilingual Press, University of Arizona) – as well as of the chapbook Molinos: Primeros Poemas. She’s the translator of La sombra de la muerte/Death’s Shadow, a novel by His Excellency José Tomás Pérez, the Dominican Republic’s Ambassador to the U.S., and of Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s poetry collection La arqueología del viento/The Wind’s Archeology. A proud recipient of artist fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy of Environmental Justice Award, as well as Special Recognition for Community Service from the U.S. Congress, Naomi’s essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

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