John Murillo is an Afro-Chicano poet and playwright from Los Angeles. He is the 2002 and 2004 winner of the D.C Commission on Arts and Humanities' Larry Neal Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem fellow and former instructor with DCWritersCorps, John was a coach for Washington D.C.'s 2001 and 2005 National Teen Poetry Slam Teams. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Lumina, Cave Canem VIII and IX, DC Poets Against the War. He is the author of the chapbook, Aluta, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, B-Boy Infinitives: Poetry of the Hip-Hop Experience. John is the current New York Times Fellow in Poetry at NYU's Graduate Program for Creative Writing.
