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I’m an award-winning chicano author, so what?

At the end of 2016, my last book won an award. When my publicist at the time called to inform me, I felt unstoppable, like I had climbed mount everest with nothing more than my hiking boots and some twine…. Continue Reading →

Writing a book is really hard

Writing a book is really hard. I’ve written a few, but it never gets easier. I remember someone saying at a writing group in which I used to participate that a writer knows when they’re writing her truth when she… Continue Reading →

I am the last mestizo

I am the last Mestizo.  Maybe there are other people who understand what it means to be Mestizo, but I wonder where they are?  I don’t hear the ancient alabados anywhere anymore.  No one sings these hymns that allowed a… Continue Reading →

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