"You'll find me swinging from the branches of my ancestral tree."
Juan Pablo Luzuriaga
"You'll find me swinging from the branches of my ancestral tree."
Juan Pablo Luzuriaga
About Juan Pablo Luzuriaga Abad
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Bio
Juan Luzuriaga was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and immigrated to the U.S. at 16 in 2000. He studied Neuroscience at Rutgers University and English at UC Merced. He teaches poetry in prisons, at Cuesta College, and California Poets in the Schools. He has been a featured panelist at the San Francisco Writers Conference, UC Merced, Cuesta College Central Coast Writers' Conference, Litfest, and more. He has been published in Acentos Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Monterey Poetry Review, Cholla Needles, Poetry Breakfast, anthologies and more.
Q'elqaq (Writer)
Q'elqaq means writer in Quechua. Juan Pablo honors his Basque and Inca lineage.
His writing has deep roots in spirituality and carries a rich generational history.