Fred Arroyo

Fred Arroyo is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. His chapbook Alba and Other Songs won the Alta California Chapbook Prize from Gunpowder Press and was published in a bilingual edition in 2024. He is also the author of the essay collection Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging, which was shortlisted for the 2021-2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is currently working on a short fiction collection, The Book of Manuels.