: About Me

I was born in Nicaragua in 1954. Moved to the USA in 1985 and became a citizen in 1992. After completing studies in architecture, administration, and philosophy and 18 years in Florida, I moved to Texas in 2003.

In collaboration with American Fraternity, Inc. and after winning several competitive grants from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, I published 24 books of poetry and short stories in both English and Spanish, of which 7 were my own creation.

Currently I am enrolled in the on-line MFA-Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.

My poetry has been published in many magazines and web sites in the USA, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Spain, London, and Brazil.

More information can be found at: www.danilolopez.org

My passion is ...

literature

I know too much about ...

life

My parents always told me ...

be yourself, be kind

My childhood ambition ...

independence and justice

My favorite memory ...

my mother

Why I write ...

it is unavoidable

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

"creative tension" by michael heller

My first job ...

draftsperson

My best moment ...

seeing my daughters births

My inspiration ...

god, woman, and country

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Life

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Bread Man When I was a child, days began at eight or nine in the morning. I was still too young for school, so I enjoyed the luxury of waking up late. When I started elementary school though, it was a different story. I had to ride public buses for an hour before arriving at school. I used to get up so early, at about five a.m. It was then that I saw him for the first time. Bread Man arrived in his bicycle at five or five thirty in the morning. The felt hat slanted to the right, his pants tied with a rubber band at the cuff so they wouldn't be caught in the bike's chain. A big basket in th...

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