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Cali Linfor moved from Los Angeles to San Diego to attend graduate school in poetry in 1996 and never left. Currently, she lectures in rhetoric and writing at San Diego State University and her scholarly work focuses on issues of educational equity. She served as poetry editor of Epicenter Literary Magazine, based in her hometown of Riverside, for sixteen years. Linfor is honored to be a member of the Mayday Poetry Workgroup. She lives happily near the banks of the San Diego River and the rolling hills of Mission Trails Regional Park with her family. Cali's publications include poems, articles, and short stories. Her first book, A Book of Ugly Things, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems.
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Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña, considered a pioneer in Chicano Studies, is the author of 20 titles, 32 academic articles and chapters in books. He has written 155 book reviews and more than 188 opinion pieces. His book, Occupied America, has been banned in Arizona. Three of his books have received the Gustavus Myers Award for the Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America and more recently Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (Arizona) was named a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Magazine (American Library Association).
Acuña has received the National Hispanic Institute, Lifetime Achievement Award, Austin, Texas, 2008 and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Historian of the Lions Award, among others. In 1989, Acuña received the Distinguished Scholar Award, National Association for Chicano Studies, the Emil Freed Award for Community Service, Southern California Social Science Library, and the Founder's Award for Community Service from the Liberty Hill Foundation among others.
His best-known books include Occupied America: A History of Chicanos; Sometimes There is No Other Side: Essays on Truth and Objectivity; Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles; US Latinos: An Inquiry; Community Under Siege; and The Sonoran Strongman. As an activist and scholar, he has been a leading voice in the Mexican American community. He received his doctorate in Latin American Studies in 1968.
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Heather Eudy was born and raised in San Diego County. Always restless, she left for Colorado upon graduating high school, then for San Francisco to study writing as an undergraduate student, and wound up in San Diego again working construction until pursuing her MFA in Poetry at San Diego State University. After completing graduate work, she got a job delivering cars cross country and later made southern Mexico her temporary home. Eudy is now Professor of English at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. Her work has been featured in several anthologies, and her first book, Bills of Lading, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems. She continues to travel widely.
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Matt de la Peña is the author of four critically-acclaimed young adult novels – Ball Don't Lie, Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, and I Will Save You. Ball Don't Lie was made into a major motion picture released in 2011 starring Ludacris, Nick Cannon, Emelie de Ravin, Grayson Boucher, and Rosanna Arquette (Night and Day Pictures).
De la Peña also the author of the award-winning picture book A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
The author received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific, where he attended school on a full athletic scholarship for basketball. De la Peña lives in Brooklyn, NY, teaches creative writing at NYU, and visits high schools and colleges throughout the country.
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Sabrina Youmans thrives in Los Angeles, but remains tethered to San Diego and all its trappings of paradise. She started her career writing for magazines and newspapers. After earning her MFA from San Diego State University with Pockets of Air, she transitioned into education. Youmans has served as a learning specialist for the past fifteen years, orienting student-athletes to university writing and the demands of college. She began this work at SDSU, did a brief stint in the south at LSU, and is now a Senior Learning Specialist at UCLA. Her first book, Pacific Standard Time, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems.
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Susan Straight has published seven novels and one middle-grade reader. Her upcoming book, Between Heaven and Here, is the final novel in her Rio Seco trilogy where she tells a story of unforgettable intimacy and intensity. Her other works have received several honors. Highwire Moon was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001; A Million Nightingales was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2006. “The Golden Gopher,” from Los Angelas Noir, won the Edgar Award in 2007; “El Ojo de Agua,” from Zoetrope, won an O. Henry Award in 2007. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on Highwire Moon, and a Lannan Prize was an immense help when working on Take One Candle Light a Room. Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope, The Ontario Review, The Oxford American, The Sun, Black Clock, and other magazines. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Family Circle, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, Harpers, The Nation, and other magazines.
In Between Heaven and Here, Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley behind a taquería, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no one—not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son Victor who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling rock out of dryers in the Launderland, not her uncle Enríque, who everyone knows will be the one to hunt down her killer—saw her die. As the close-knit residents of Rio Seco, California react to Glorette’s murder, it becomes clear that her life and death are deeply entangled with the dark history of the city, and the untouchable beauty that, finally, killed her.
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Chris Baron is an unlikely San Diego resident—raised in New York City, he had the blessing/curse of being raised by eclectic artists which forced him to live all over the country. He could only succeed in painting the walls of the house to the dismay of his family, so thankfully, writing caught him, and he started taking it seriously when, in college, a poetry professor told him he could write about sports. As a college athlete, this helped connect art to the real world.
Baron earned his MFA in poetry in 1998, and now works as a professor at San Diego City College, where he is director of The Writing Center. He also works with local high schools and other organizations on education reform. Chris's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. His first book, Under the Broom Tree, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems, an collection published by City Works Press, which also features the first full-length books of poetry Eudy, Linfor and Youmans. It can be purchased through at http://www.cityworkspress.org/.
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Gustavo Arellano’s new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, presents an entertaining, tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisine’s tremendous popularity in El Norte. Arellano’s fascinating narrative combines history, cultural criticism, personal anecdotes, and Jesus on a tortilla.
Arellano is the editor of OC Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Orange County, California, author of Orange County: A Personal History, and lecturer with the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at California State University, Fullerton. He writes “¡Ask a Mexican!” a nationally syndicated column in which he answers any and all questions about America’s spiciest and largest minority. The column has a weekly circulation of over 2 million in 39 newspapers across the United States, won the 2006 and 2008 Association of Alternative Weeklies award for Best Column, and was published in book form by Scribner Press in May 2007.
Arellano’s commentaries regularly appear on Marketplace and the Los Angeles Times. Arellano is the recipient of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2007 President’s Award and an Impacto Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition. He was recognized by the California Latino Legislative Caucus with a 2008 Spirit Award for his “exceptional vision, creativity, and work ethic.” Gustavo is a lifelong resident of Orange County and is the proud son of two Mexican immigrants, one whom was undocumented.
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Herbert Sigüenza is a founding member of Culture Clash, the most prominent Chicano/Latino performance troupe in the country for the past 28 years. He is a contributor to Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, which has been banned in Arizona. Culture Clash performances have been produced by the nation’s leading regional theatres including the Mark Taper Forum, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
In his most recent performance, Sigüenza delves into Picasso’s private studio, “Le Californie” on the coast of France, for an intimate and revealing weekend. The play explores Picasso’s proclamations about ambition, destruction, creativity and art as an agent of social change.
Along with partners Richard Montoya and Ric Salinas, Sigüenza has performed and/or co-written: The Mission, A Bowl of Beings, S.O.S.-Comedy for These Urgent Times, Unplugged, Capra Clash, Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami, Bordertown, The Birds, Nuyorican Stories, Anthology, Mission Magic Mystery Tour, Anthems: Culture Clash in the District, Chavez Ravine, Señor Discretion Himself, Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, Zorro in Hell, Water & Power, and Peace and Palestine New Mexico.
Sigüenza has a BFA in printmaking from the California College of Arts, Oakland. He wrote Private Eddie U.S.A. for the youth CAL-ARTS program at the Redcat Theatre. He also co-wrote and directed Lost and Found with students at UC Irvine Theatre Department. In his play, Cantinflas! Sigüenza paid tribute to Mexico’s greatest film star.
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After publishing two acclaimed and award-winning novels about the Mexican immigrant experience and the families forced to navigate its twists and turns, celebrated author Reyna Grande reveals her own troubled and triumphant story as an undocumented immigrant in a heartfelt memoir The Distance Between Us.
Born in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old, Reyna enters the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant to live with her father. Filled with hope, she quickly realizes that life in America is far from perfect. Her father isn’t the man she dreamed about all those years in Mexico. His big dreams for his children are what gets them across the border, but his alcoholism and rage undermine all his hard work and good intentions. Reyna finds solace from a violent home in books and writing, inspired by the Latina voices she reads. After an explosive altercation, Reyna breaks away, going on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education, earning a college degree and then an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
At a time when immigration politics are at a boiling point in America, Reyna Grande is an important public voice for Mexican Americans and immigrants of every origin. The Distance Between Us has the power to change minds and hearts.
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Special art exhibit, "HMN"featuring human silhouettes made of different types of wire by artist Socrates Medina.
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Zohreh Ghahremani (Zoe) is an Iranian-American who has made the U.S. her permanent home over the past four decades. Following 25 years of teaching at Northwestern University, as well as running her dental practice in the Chicago area, she retired in pursuit of her lifelong passion and became a writer.
In 2000, her first book – The Commiserator - was published in her native language, Persian. Over two hundred of her essays and vignettes – both in English and Persian - have appeared in several magazines and bloggers. She has written three novels, including The Moon Daughter and Sky of Red Poppies.
A charter member of San Diego Writers’ Ink, the author is also on its board and has organized the Great Book Exchange. Ghahremani lives in San Diego with her husband and close to their three children. When not writing, she enjoys painting and gardening.
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Chris Baron is an unlikely San Diego resident—raised in New York City, he had the blessing/curse of being raised by eclectic artists which forced him to live all over the country. He could only succeed in painting the walls of the house to the dismay of his family, so thankfully, writing caught him, and he started taking it seriously when, in college, a poetry professor told him he could write about sports. As a college athlete, this helped connect art to the real world.
Baron earned his MFA in poetry in 1998, and now works as a professor at San Diego City College, where he is director of The Writing Center. He also works with local high schools and other organizations on education reform. Chris's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. His first book, Under the Broom Tree, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems, an collection published by City Works Press, which also features the first full-length books of poetry Eudy, Linfor and Youmans. It can be purchased through at http://www.cityworkspress.org/.
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