Bobby Byrd

Bobby Byrd:  grew up in Memphis, Tennessee during the golden age of the city’s music scene.  “That music” he says, “probably saved my life.”  He and his wife, Lee, moved in 1978 to El Paso.  In 1985, they founded Cinco Puntos Press, an independent publishing company rooted in the US / Mexican Border.  He has published 10 books of poems and received an NEA Fellowship for Poetry; the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship; and, with his wife, a Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom.