Arte Público Press Author Yolanda Gallardo featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Gallardo for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: YOLANDA GALLARDO is a poet, playwright and novelist born in the Bronx to parents of Cuban and Venezuelan/Puerto Rican heritage. Her play, Everybody Knows My Business, has been performed in Puerto Rico and optioned for Off Broadway. She’s the author of a digital poetry collection, The Fragile Thread (Word Wrangler Press), and her poems have been published in journals including Long Shot Magazine and Chiricú. She lives and works in Bronxville, New York. About her new book, The Glass Eye: Doña Amada can see more through one eye than …
Author on the Airwaves: Alidis Vicente
Arte Público Press Author Alidis Vicente featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Vicente for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: ALIDIS VICENTE is the author of the bilingual “flip” book series for intermediate readers, The Flaca Files, which includes The Missing Chancleta and Other Top-Secret Cases: The Flaca Files / La chancleta perdida y otros casos secretos: Los expedientes de Flaca (Piñata Books, 2013), and The Case of the Three Kings: The Flaca Files / El caso de los Reyes Magos: Los expedientes de Flaca (Piñata Books, 2016). The first bilingual “flip” book in her Mister Malo series, The Shameless Shenanigans of Mister Malo / …
Author on the Airwaves: Henry A. J. Ramos
Arte Público Press Author Henry A. J. Ramos featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Ramos for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: HENRY A. J. RAMOS is Principal of Mauer Kunst Consulting, a private research and advising firm working with social investors and public interest nonprofit groups. He is past Executive Director of Equal Voice Action, a national membership organization of poor and low-income families seeking enhanced political and economic empowerment, and past President and CEO of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, one of the nation’s leading applied research centers on issues of economic mobility and justice. Prior to the Insight Center, Ramos …
Texas Author’s Debut novel Recognized
HOUSTON, TX August 2019— Alex Temblador’s debut novel for teens, Secrets of the Casa Rosada, has been named the Middle Grade / Young Adult Discovery Prize Winner in the 2018 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards. Established in 1991, the awards recognize the year’s outstanding books published by Texas authors. The recipient of the 2019 Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award and named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018, Secrets is an engaging novel for young adults that follows a family of women and the secrets they hold. Reviewers have enthusiastically recommended it: “Debut novelist Temblador has created an unforgettable character in Martha, a girl whose gifts are greater than she could have imagined, in part because they belong to a world she never could have imagined. A suspenseful and fascinating glimpse into a Mexican-American world.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Alex Temblador’s magical Secrets of the Casa Rosada …
Call for Abstracts: XV Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference
Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism and Women’s Rights***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPT. 30*** February 20-22, 2019 · University of Houston-Downtown · Houston, Texas The XV Recovery conference will convene in Houston from February 20 to 22, 2020 to continue the legacy of scholars meeting to discuss and present their research. The conference theme invites scholars—including archivists, librarians, linguists, historians, critics, theorists and community members–to share examples of the cultural legacy they are recovering, preserving and making available about the culture of the Hispanic world whose peoples resided here, immigrated to or were exiled in the United States over the past centuries. This conference foregrounds the work of Latinas that focuses on women’s rights, suffrage and education as we usher in a new phase of feminist critical genealogies. We seek papers, panels and posters in either English or Spanish that highlight these many contributions, but also offer us critical ways to …
Author on the Airwaves: Carlos Cisneros
Arte Público Press Author Carlos Cisneros featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Cisneros for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: CARLOS CISNEROS graduated from South Texas College of Law and has his own law practice in Brownsville, Texas. A former assistant district attorney in Cameron County, he has extensive felony and misdemeanor trial experience. Prior to returning to the Rio Grande Valley, he worked as an associate attorney in Houston. Through his work, he has observed first-hand much of what he so vividly narrates in his novels, The Case Runner (Arte Público Press, 2008); The Name Partner (2010) and The Land Grant (2012) . In …
Women’s History Month–Fiction Titles
A useful guide to woman-centric novels, poetry collections and short stories for librarians, readers and teachers alike! Create a shelf display or find your next read. Secrets of the Casa Rosada Sixteen-year-old Martha and her mother move constantly, never staying anywhere for long. So she knows better than to ask if they’ve been evicted again when her mom says they’re going on a “vacation” to Laredo, Texas, to meet the grandmother Martha didn’t know existed. At her Abuela’s pink house, Martha’s shocked and hurt when her mom abandons her, even though a part of her had been expecting it. Suddenly, Martha must deal with a lifestyle that is completely foreign. And it turns out that her grandmother is revered as a healer, or curandera. Meanwhile, at Martha’s new school, she can’t be anonymous because everyone knows she’s Doña González’s granddaughter, and a girl named Marcella has it out for her. …
Women’s History Month–Nonfiction Titles
We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting these books about inspirational Latina women throughout history! There’s poetry, academic and general interest texts. Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry Diagnosed with scleroderma at 22 and lupus just six years later, Jasminne Méndez’ life becomes a roller coaster of doctor visits, medical tests and procedures. Staring at EKG results that look like hieroglyphics, she realizes that she doesn’t want to understand them: “The language of a life lived with chronic illness is not something I want to adapt to. I cannot let this hostile vocabulary hijack my story.” In this stirring collection of personal essays and poetry, Méndez shares her story, writing about encounters with the medical establishment, experiences as an Afro Latina and longing for the life she expected but that eludes her. Seasons of Rebels and Roses Ranging from Puerto Rico to Cuba and the United States, Virginia Sánchez-Korrol’s engaging novel …
Author on the Airwaves: Carolyn Dee Flores
Arte Público Press Author Carolyn Dee Flores featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Flores for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: A graduate of Trinity University, CAROLYN DEE FLORES is the illustrator of The Amazing Watercolor Fish / El asombroso pez acuarela (Piñata Books, 2018); A Surprise for Teresita / Una sorpresa para Teresita (Piñata Books, 2016); Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of Numbers (Piñata Books, 2014), which was named to the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List; Canta, Rana, canta / Sing, Froggie, Sing (Piñata Books, 2013), which was named to the 2014-2015 Tejas …
It’s No Secret That We’ve Got a Winner!
Author’s debut for teens wins Texas award HOUSTON, TX February, 2019—Alex Temblador’s intriguing novel for teens, Secrets of the Casa Rosada, has won the 2019 Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award given by the National Association for Chicana/o Studies. The Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award recognizes outstanding work that best represents a significant topic related to Mexican American experience in Texas. The prize is given by the Texas chapter of the National Association for Chicana/o Studies (NACCS), an organization that serves academic programs, departments and research centers focusing on issues pertinent to Mexican Americans, Chicana/os and Latina/os. Formed in 1972 during the height of the Chicana/o movement, NACCS called for the development of a space where Chicana/o students could develop their talents in higher education. Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018, Secrets is an engaging novel for young adults that follows a family of women and the …