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Gregg Barrios

A Vietnam Veteran born in Victoria, Tx was an award-winning playwright, poet, and journalist.

This prolific writer and cultural warrior left a legacy of literature, including plays like Rancho Pancho, I-DJ, and A Ship of Fools. Among his many awards were: a CTG-Mark Taper Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and an Artist Foundation Grant for his theater work. He was a 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow and served on the National Book Critics Circle board. His work appeared in The New York Times, the Texas Monthly, the Film Quarterly, and more. A former San Antonio Express-News book editor, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters this year. A 2017 Harvard Fellow and a 2018 Yale NEH Fellow, he is the author of a new book, “My Life is the Poem I Never Wrote: Selected Poetry.” Gregg Barrios’s life was poetry, and his contributions to the Chicano and LGBTQ communities will endure. Scheduled to be the grand honoree of Gemini Ink’s 2021 Inkstravaganza. Teatro Audaz members and community sympathize with his familia, friends, and the artistic community.

Gregg Barrios, rest in peace and power!