Maceo Montoya

California-based author, artist, and educator Maceo Montoya comes from a family of artists, including his father, Malaquias Montoya, a renowned artist, activist, and educator; and his late brother, the poet Andrés Montoya. Maceo graduated from Yale University, New Haven, CT, and received his Master of Fine Arts in visual art from Columbia University, New York City.

Montoya's paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications both nationally and internationally. As a writer, he has collaborated with other writers on visual-textual projects, including David Montejano's Sancho's Journal (University of Texas Press, 2012), an ethnography of the Brown Berets in San Antonio; Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre Press, 2015); and Arturo Mantecon's translation of Mexican poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth (Dialogos Books, 2018).

His first novel, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review, 2010), was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for "Best First Book." In 2014, the University of New Mexico Press published his second novel, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays. Montoya’s third work of fiction is titled You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2015).

Montoya is an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches courses on Chicanx culture and literature.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

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Born

1980

Elmira, CA

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

Latin American

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