Poet Biography

Paul Flores

PAUL FLORES is a poet, playwright, novelist and nationally prominent spoken-word artist from San Francisco, who specializes in bilingual and Hip-Hop performance. He is co-founder of Youth Speaks and currently teaches Hip-Hop and Spoken Word at the University of San Francisco. Paul was featured on Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry on HBO, and he was recently awarded a Center for Cultural Innovation grant to tour Latin America. His novel, Along the Border Lies, won the 2003 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and his most recent plays, Fear of a Brown Planet (2005) and REPRESENTA! (2007) were both National Performance Network Creation Fund Commissions.