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[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Griselda J. Castillo | Spring 2018 Special Feature
No full textMeet Griselda J. Castillo, a featured artist from Volume 3: The Borderlands Issue!
Griselda J. Castillo is a bilingual poet and creative nonfiction writer from Laredo, Texas. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a first-generation American and explores her bicultural identity through poems and stories. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Ocotillo Review, Sparkle + Blink, and Chachalaca Review. She also performs her poetry as part of Five Voices One Brush, an improvisational art and jazz collective. Griselda lives and works in Austin. This year, she received the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Premio Best Poetry Book award for her book, Blood & Piloncillo.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1008/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Daniella Levy | Vol. 2: Beyond Issue
No full textMeet Daniella Levy! Daniella lives in Israel with her husband and three sons. Her poems Barco de Papel and Paper Boat were featured in The Chachalaca Review - Volume 2: The Beyond Issue. Here, she shares how her poems came to be.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1005/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Monica Muñoz Martinez | Spring 2019 Special Feature
No full textMonica Muñoz Martinez is an award-winning author, educator, public historian, and active participant in developing solutions that address racial injustice. Martinez is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her research specializes in histories of violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, and public humanities. Born and raised in Texas, Martinez received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.
Her first book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press, Sept 2018) is a moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas–Mexico borderlands. She is currently at work on Mapping Violence a digital research project that recovers histories of racial violence in Texas between 1900 and 1930.
Martinez is a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing to Forget that calls for public commemorations of anti-Mexican violence in Texas. The team developed an award-winning exhibit for the Bullock Texas State History Museum in 2016 that marked the first time a state cultural institution acknowledged state responsibility for this period of racial terror in the twentieth century. Martinez also helped secure four state historical markers along the US-Mexico border.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1011/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Jessica Helen Lopez | Fall 2018 Special Feature
No full textMeet Jessica Helen Lopez, a featured artist from Volume 4: The Identity Issue!
Jessica Helen Lopez is City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Emeritus and the host of arts-based PBS, ¡COLORES! She has also been a featured writer for 30 Poets in their 30’s by MUZZLE and named one of the “10 Up and Coming Lantinx Poets You Need to Know” by international digital publisher and agency, Remezcla.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1009/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Maria Elena Salazar | The Chachalaca Review Vol. 2: Beyond Issue
No full textMeet Maria Elena Salazar!
Maria Elena Salazar was a bilingual educator in Brownsville, Texas for 30 years. She was married to Baltazar Salazar, the love of her life, for almost 60 years. Together they had 5 children who are all college graduates. Her grandchildren are also adults, and she now has several great grandchildren. Mrs. Salazar enjoys writing poetry and short stories about her life, creating arts and crafts, gardening, and spending time with loved ones.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1010/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Norma E. Cantú | Fall 2019 Special Feature
No full textBorn in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and raised in Laredo, Texas, Norma Cantú received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&I at Laredo and Kingsville and her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She served and taught as Chair and Interim Dean at Laredo State University, later renamed Texas A&M International University, was a senior arts administrator with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, and was Acting Chair of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Dr. Cantú has published articles on a number or academic subjects including border literature, the teaching of English, quinceañera celebration and the matachines, a religious dance tradition have earned her an international reputation as a scholar and folklorist in addition to poetry and fiction. She has co-edited four books and edited a collection of testimonios by Chicana scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Her award winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera chronicles her childhood experiences on the border. She has published poetry in a number of venues including Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, and the Latina/Chicana Studies Journal. Her novel Cabañuelas, A Love Story was published in Spring 2019https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1014/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Myriam Gurba | Spring 2020 Special Feature
No full textMeet Myriam Gurba, a featured artist from Volume 7: Metamorphosis Issue!
Myriam Gurba is a Mexican-American writer and visual artist from Santa Maria, California. She is known for her true-crime memoir Mean named a New York editors’ choice. Her memoir also ranked as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time by O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also the author of Painting Their Portraits in Winter which explores Mexican stories and traditions from the feminist perspective. She has graduated from UC Berkley and her writings have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Erotica (St. Martin’s) and Tough Girls (Black Books). Gurba is currently residing in Long Beach, California.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1012/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Natalia Sylvester | Fall 2018 Special Feature
No full textMeet Natalia Sylvester, a featured artist from Volume 4: Identity Issue!
Natalia Sylvester emigrated to the U.S. with her parents from Lima, Peru when she was only four years old. She grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and in Florida where she received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami. Her novel Chasing the Sun was chosen as the Best Debut book in Latinidad’s Best Books of 2014 and her most recent novel, Everyone Knows You Go Home, won an International Latino Book Award and Best Book of 2018 by Real Simple magazine. Her work has appeared in Bustle, Catapult, Latina Magazine, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Publishing, and the Austin American-Statesman, Writer’s Digest, and NBCLatino.com. Natalia is currently a freelance writer living in Austin, Texas with her husband and two dogs.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1013/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Ronnie Garza | Spring 2020 Special Feature
No full textMeet Ronnie Garza, a featured artist from Volume 7: Metamorphosis Issue!
Born in Brownsville, Texas, Ronnie Garza is an artist, director and writer, most notably known for work in As I Walk Through the Valley (SXSW 2017), a documentary rifling through four decades of the Rio Grande Valley’s music history in all its varied glory, and Pansy Pachanga (coming 2020) which explores the history of the LGBTQIA+ community from the border. Ronnie is also an experimental musician (Winter Texan) and democracy activist and works in video-journalism related to activism in Austin and The RGV. He also produces art and is a poet.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1015/thumbnail.jp
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Emma Guevara | Vol. 2: Beyond Issue
No full textMeet Emma Guevara! Emma Guevara is a 19 year old, Mexican-American, aspiring singer-songwriter that isn\u27t that good but is just here to have a good time. She\u27s currently a senior Political Science major and is really mad at Donald Trump. She hopes you like this song as it is her homage to anyone who has ever been wronged by a white boy. Deuces.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1006/thumbnail.jp
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