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Gonzalo Adolfo is a Bolivian-American writer and author of the forthcoming books, Go Look Lost and Give Me a Home, the novels, No Rush for Gold and Golden Rushes, and the poetry volumes, Singing Into the Rain and Echoes in the Mountains, among other works.
Born and raised in the Midwestern United States, he made the move to Bolivia in 2004 to reconnect with his homeland where he settled in Cochabamba to write his first book, No Rush for Gold, a story about a musician and a tribute to Madison, Wisconsin, and for a time targeted the expat community in South America to live off of book sales. In 2008, he traveled through Argentina where he settled in Buenos Aires to write his second book, Golden Rushes, a romantic story about a wandering musician, and to work on translating both of these pieces into Spanish.
So impressed by a cross-country train trip across the western United States aboard Amtrak’s California Zephyr, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010 where he first settled in Berkeley before eventually moving further south along the Central Coast to Santa Barbara in 2023. His poetry from this period along with writings drawn from his travels throughout the American continent are collected in the volumes Gone to War and the forthcoming Cruise Your Illusion.
In the spring of 2019, he took off on a road trip from Illinois to Montana in a borrowed red hardtop convertible, visiting as many national parks and forests en route as possible. This journey along with visits to Paris, Colorado, and his hometown in Illinois as well as a couple of long distance train trips aboard the Amtrak are detailed in the volumes To Roam at Last and the forthcoming Give Me a Home.
Later that spring and to fulfill the longtime dream of walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, he traveled to Bayonne in the French Basque Country to set out across the north of Spain along the route known as the Camino del Norte. Bitten by the Camino bug, several years later he traveled to Lisboa to walk along the central route of the Camino Portugués. These experiences are told in the mixed poetry and photography collections Singing Into the Rain and Echoes in the Mountains as well as the forthcoming multi-volume I Walk the Earth.
Other projects in the works include Home I’ll Never Be & Go Look Lost, stories inspired by his experiences of living in Bolivia & Argentina, and Book of Perturbance, a collection of miscellaneous writings.
In addition to his written work, he has published several volumes of black and white photography drawn from his travels. Cuchi Cuchi Time: a Portrait of Los Cabos is the most recent. Other volumes include portraits of Barcelona, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, New York, Chicago, Madrid, Washington DC & Bolivia. Portraits of California, London, the Loire Valley of France, & the cemeteries of Paris are forthcoming.
Between projects, he can be found sketching with graphite and other materials and dabbling in music. While primarily a guitarist and an occasional pianist, pairing the harmonica with the charango is his current favorite pursuit.
International publication credits include Rue Scribe, Poetry Quarterly, The Opiate, Vita Brevis Poetry Anthology, Black Bamboo Haiku Anthology, Star 82 Review, Frogpond Journal, Wales Haiku Journal, Presence, Somos en escrito, The Bioptic Review, Poetry Super Highway, and The Berkeley Times Poetry Edition. He has been an active participant in Spoken Word Paris and Angora Poets and other local writer communities wherever his travels take him.
Gonzalo currently lives in Santa Barbara, California where he is putting the finishing touches on Go Look Lost & Give Me a Home.
All artwork on this site was created by Gonzalo Adolfo except where noted.
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