Author
Rux is one of several poets (including Paul Beatty, Tracie Morris, Dael Orlandersmith, Willie Perdomo, Kevin Powell, Maggie Estep, Reg E. Gaines, Edwin Torres and Saul Williams) to emerge from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, most of whom were included in the poetry anthology Aloud, Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, winner of the 1994 American Book Award. His first book of poetry, Pagan Operetta received the Village Voice Literary prize and was featured on the weekly's cover story: Eight Writers on the Verge of (Impacting) the Literary Landscape.Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt and the OBIE Award winning play Talk.
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