Pablo Otavalo

A man with bruised face standing in front of a bookshelf
Composite created by Pablo Otavalo

Pablo Otavalo is from Cuenca, Ecuador, and now lives and writes in Illinois. A recipient of the 2013 and 2014 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition prize, his work has appeared in RHINO PoetryJet Fuel ReviewStructo MagazineNo Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry, and other publications. We must find what we revere in each other.