Department of World Languages and Cultures Sam Houston State University
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 …
Yolanda Gallardo
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 Journal. The Glass Eye (Arte Público Press, 2019) is her debut novel. She lives and works in Bronxville, New York.
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ph.D.
Latino-Latin American Studies Program English Department Syracuse University
