Sam Pereira
Sam Pereira is an American poet from Los Banos, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, where he was a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
His books include: The Marriage of the Portuguese, Brittle Water, and A Cafe in Boca, released in 2007 by Tebot Bach. An expanded edition of his first book was published in April 2012 by Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Dusting on Sunday was released in December 2012. In 2015, Bad Angels was published, and is, among other things, a poetic look at the years Pereira was a student in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Work of his has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry in recent decades, among them: Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, The Body Electric, and How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets.
His poems have been included in numerous magazines as well, among them, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, CutBank, Manoa, The Missouri Review, Poetry, Connotation Press and Blackbird.
Pereira was a Language Arts Teacher at Los Banos Junior High School until he retired in 2019. He currently resides in Los Banos, California.
