Javier Zamora

born in 1990 in La Herradura, El Salvador, is a poet, writer, and activist. His work often explores themes of migration and borders, with his personal experiences deeply shaping both his poetry and prose. In 2017, he published his first poetry collection, »Unaccompanied«. This was followed in 2022 by »Solito: A Memoir«, a book recounting his own migration journey from the perspective of his nine-year-old self. The latter became a New York Times bestseller and received the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize the year it was published. He advocates for undocumented writers and, as part of the »Undocupoets« project, is committed to exposing and addressing structural barriers in the literary world and highlighting how immigration status affects access and opportunity. In addition to other academic honors, he was awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, which supported his poetic work from 2018 to 2019. He lives in Tucson, USA.

Unaccompanied
Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, 2017

Solito. Eine wahre Geschichte
Kiepenheuer&Witsch
Köln, 2024 [Original: 2022]