Jose B. Gonzalez

He is the recipient of the following awards: • 2003 National Association of Multicultural Education CT Faculty of the Year • 2006 NEATE Poet of the Year • 2009 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Outstanding Latino Faculty of the Year • 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar • 2015 Latino De Oro (Arts and Culture) • 2015 International Latino Book Award Finalist • 2018 Connecticut Book Award Finalist (Poetry) for When Love Was Reels • 2019 Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development Artistic Excellence Fellowship ==Works==

Poetry collections • Editor • Poems in Anthologies • • • • • ==Speaking career==

Gonzalez has been a featured speaker throughout the country including at Fairfield University, Rutgers University Pittsburg State University (Kansas), Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, Texas), Cornell University Connecticut College, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, at festivals such as the Newburyport Literary Festival, and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He has presented his poetry in countries such as El Salvador and Spain. ==References==