“Sideshow” is a prose poem by Bay Area poet Antonio Lopez for the Viva Macondo digital chapbook.
Author Archives: Antonio Lopez
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Antonio López received a double B.A. in Global Cultural Studies (Literature) and African-American studies from Duke University. He's an inaugural John Lewis Fellow, a recipient of Rudolph William Rosati Creative Writing, and a finalist for the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship to attend the 47th annual Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, a Tin House Scholarship for their 2018 Summer Workshop and is a 2018 Macondista. His nonfiction has been featured in PEN/America and his poetry in Hayden's Ferry Review, Acentos Review, Permafrost, Huizache, and elsewhere. He received a Master in Fine Arts (poetry) at Rutgers University-Newark. As a 2018 Marshall Scholar, he is currently pursuing a Master in Philosophy in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.
