Contributors
- Contributors
DIEGO AGUILAR es originario del estado de Guanajuato, México. Reside en los Estados Unidos desde el año 2000. Es egresado de Sonoma State University California, con una licenciatura en español. Actualmente se encuentra realizando una maestría en Literatura Latinoamericana, en la Universidad de Nuevo Mexico. Se interesa en Literatura Mexicana del siglo XX-XXI con énfasis en migración y género.
ARTURO ARIAS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America, The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, The Identity of the Word, and Ceremonial Gestures, as well as a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Mulata, was President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, 2001–2003), co-wrote the film El Norte, and has published six novels in Spanish. Twice winner of the Casa de las Americas award for his fiction, and winner of the Anna Seghers award for fiction in Germany, in 2008 he was distinguished with the Miguel Angel Asturias national award for literature in his native Guatemala.
HILDA CHACON is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture in Rochester, NY. Her first career was as a journalist and she has experience in writing, as well as in radio and TV production. She has published about cyberspace, political cartoons, US-Mexico cultural exchanges in the global era, and gender issues. Currently chair of MLA Division Executive Committee on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature (2009–2014), she is also working on two book projects. She stubbornly continues with her creative writing to maintain her sanity in the midst of a world that, often, does not make much sense to her.
PRISCILLA GAC-ARTIGAS es profesora titular en Monmouth University, Nueva Jersey. Autora de numerosos ensayos sobre literatura femenina latinoamericana, y de escritores latinos en los Estados Unidos, sus libros incluyen: ¡A la perfección! Para dominar la mecánica de la escritura; Hoja de ruta, cultura y civilización de Latinoamérica; Nos tomamos la palabra; Reflexiones, ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporáneas, 2 volúmenes (editora); y dos gramáticas: Directo al grano y Sans Détour, and “Metodología de enseñanza y aprendizaje integral con medición continua”con Gustavo Gac-Artigas.
MARISOL LEON is a Chicana educator from Mid-City Los Angeles; her parents are from rural Jalisco, Mexico. Her family history influenced her research on the Movement of Landless Rural Workers in Brazil, which later inspired her to engage in popular education work in Chiapas. She then applied lessons learned from both experiences to her work as an educator. Leon taught at her former middle school until being pushed out (laid off) due to the California budget cuts.
CYNTHIA MELENDREZ nació en la ciudad de Mexicali BC, México. A los 14 años empezó a participar en revistas literarias escolares; y a los 18 años emigró al país vecino de los Estados Unidos. En 2006 se graduó de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego campus externo en la ciudad de Calexico, con licenciatura en Literatura Peninsular y una sub-especialización en lingüística. En 2009 obtuvo una maestría en Literatura Peninsular de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego. Y ahora está en proceso del programa doctoral de español y portugués en la Universidad de Nuevo México. Sus intereses son de literatura femenina fronteriza y chicana siglo XX, estudios de género, estudios queer, estudios culturales y estudios de cine.
YOLANDA NIEVES, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, is playwright, director, educator, actress, founder of The Vida Bella Ensemble, an award winning poet, and author of two highly acclaimed poetry books, Dove over Clouds and The Spoken Body (Plainview Press). Her play, “The Brown Girls’ Chronicles”, winner of the American Educational Research Association’s Dissertation of the Year Award for Arts-Based Research 2010, was nationally acclaimed and performed coast to coast. Assistant Professor of English at Wright College, she holds two master’s degrees and an Ed.D in Adult Education from National-Louis University.
SILVIA PATRICIA SOLIS, born and raised in the South Tejas Northern Mexico borderlands...
