Nick Carbó

Nick Carbó is the author of El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000) and Andalusian Dawn (2004). He grew up in Manila, a city saturated with American pop culture. He immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980’s and landed in the snowy campus of Bennington College, Vermont. He eventually graduated from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas where his poetry career began with the original “Pecan Grove Poets.” In a PBS interview, Carbó tells reporter Lyn Millner how U.S. cultural icons helped shape his witty, often subversive point of view. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Le Château de Lavigny.