Carlos Andrés Gómez

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Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American writer and the author of Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), which Natasha Trethewey selected for the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His chapbook Hijito (Platypus Press, 2019) won the 2020 International Book Award for Poetry, the 2020 Indie Reader Discovery Award for Poetry, and the 2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Medal in Poetry. Gómez lives in Atlanta, on the ancestral lands of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.