About Juan Pablo Luzuriaga Abad

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  Juan Luzuriaga was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and immigrated to the United States at sixteen. He studied Neuroscience at Rutgers University and Literature at UC Merced. He teaches poetry in prisons, including California Men’s Colony, and at Cuesta College. He has been a featured panelist at UC Merced, the Cuesta College Central Coast Writers’ Conference, the San Francisco Writers Conference, MoSt Festival, among other literary gatherings. His work has appeared in Acentos Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Monterey Poetry Review, and Cholla Needles, as well as in anthologies from Bombshelter Press, Casablanca Press, and Wyld Syde Press, among other literary journals and collections.