Dr. Jesu Estrada
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Introduction | I grew up on the outskirts of Yuma, AZ, close to the Cocopah reservation. Because I was ever-bored, I became an avid reader of Spanish comic books and anything in English. Then I moved onto Steinbeck and Stephen King and now read international authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Atwood, and Marouf. I also read a lot of coming of age fiction. I have been writing stories in both Spanish and English since I was six years old. My fiction and poetry focus on working class issues, primarily about laborers in the Southwest. I also write non-serious fiction, like zombie fiction (I was into it before it got popular with the Walking Dead series, which I love) and dabble in magical realism with a fusion of cuentos and folklore. I have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Arts from Northern Arizona University. I have also taught creative writing, and will do so, spring 2017. Currently, I live in Chicago and teach full-time at Harold Washington College to an amazing student population. But, that damned itch just won't let me be, so I'm back to my original love of words. |
| Interests | Cooking, baking, knitting, zombies, reading, writing, border, Chicano, science fiction, literature, nursing, and child rearing. |
| Favorite movies | Men with Guns, Sleep Dealer, Sin Nombre, El Violin, Great Expectations, Bleak House, The House of Mirth, Equilibrium, Night of the Living Dead, Fido, and Empire of the Sun. |
| Favorite music | The Cure |
| Favorite books | Black Fire, Black Radical, We, Feed, The Handmaid's Tale, One Hundred Years of Solitude, House of the Spirits, Saving the World, A Place to Stand, The Invisible Man, Native Son, and Black Mesa Poems. |