Emmy
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | profesora and poet |
| Location | borderlands, Tejas, United States |
| Introduction | SOLSTICE (poems) and With the River on Our Face (forthcoming fall 2016). I was born and raised in Cali. After some time in NYC and Navajo country moved to la frontera by choice, by love, by the words of antepasados (literal and literary). Former New York Foundation for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown poetry fellow. MFA Columbia. Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, 2009. Macondo Writers' Workshop Member. CantoMundo Fellow. |
| Interests | poetry, rio grande, no border wall |
| Favorite Movies | La Strada, Sin Nombre, Midnight Cowboy, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Saturday Night Fever, Ruby in Paradise, Boyz n the Hood, Trois couleurs: Bleu, Trainspotting, Memento, Oldboy, Waltz with Bashir, El Laberinto del fauno, Night of the Hunter, and more... |
| Favorite Music | A Love Supreme (John Coltrane), Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lauryn Hill, Lila Downs, George Harrison, radiohead, My Morning Jacket and more. |
| Favorite Books | Dictee (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha), Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko), Borderlands/La Frontera & other works (Gloria Anzaldúa), The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie), Massacre of the Dreamers (Ana Castillo), The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (Joy Harjo), Alphabet (Inger Christensen), My Life (Lyn Hejinian), Letters to a Stranger (Thomas James), Emplumada (Lorna Dee Cervantes), Too Bright to See (Linda Gregg), Don't Let Me Be Lonely (Claudia Rankine), Pity the Drowned Horses (Sheryl Luna), Paul Celan (collected), sexoPUROsexoVeloz and SEPTIEMBRE (Dolores Dorantes), Maria Sabina, Jack Spicer, and many, many more writers and texts... |