Gary Soto
Author · 55 books
Gary Soto is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in the interview series Poets in Person. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. For ITVS, he produced the film “The Pool Party,” which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence. In 1997, because of his advocacy for reading, he was featured as NBC’s Person-of-the-Week. In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and his hometown of Fresno.
Series
Books
Chato Goes Cruisin'
2005
A Natural Man
1999
Off and Running
1996
Nerdlandia
1999
You Kiss by th' Book
New Poems from Shakespeare's Line
2016
Lucky Luis
2012
Meatballs for the People
2017
The Skirt
1993
Accidental Love
2006
A Summer Life
1990
A Path to the World
2022
Neighborhood Odes
1992
Seventh Grade
2025
Puppy Love
2007
Mercy on These Teenage Chimps
2007
A Fire in My Hands
1990
Baseball in April and Other Stories
1990
Nickel and Dime
2000
Petty Crimes
1998
The Elements of San Joaquin
1976
Too Many Tamales
1993
Who Will Know Us?
1990
A Simple Plan
2007
Pacific Crossing
1992
Hey 13!
2011
Chato's Kitchen
1995
One Kind of Faith
2003
Fearless Fernie
2002
Junior College
1997
Living Up the Street
1985
Jessie de La Cruz
A Profile of a United Farm Worker
2001
Partly Cloudy
Poems of Love and Longing
2009
Crazy Weekend
1994
If the Shoe Fits
2002
Why I Don't Write Children's Literature
2015
Summer on Wheels
1995
Marisol
2004
Big Bushy Mustache
1998
Buried Onions
1997
Novio Boy
A Play
1997
The Old Man and His Door
1996
What Poets Are Like
Up and Down with the Writing Life
2013
Facts of Life
Stories
2008
Human Nature
2010
The tale of sunlight
1978
Taking Sides
1991
New and Selected Poems
1995
The Cat's Meow
1987
Worlds Apart
Fernie and Me
2005
Local News
1993
Chato and the Party Animals
2000
The Afterlife
2003
Help Wanted
Stories
2005
Canto Familiar
1995
Jesse
1994
