Alicia
Gaspar de Alba’s latest novel Calligraphy of the Witch is released
this fall, at the same time that the book’s prequel Sor Juana’s Second
Dream and her award winning Desert Blood are both released in
paperback. Gaspar de Alba is the author of various works of poetry,
fiction, and nonfiction, among them a collection of poems and essays, La
Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas (Arte Público
Press, 2003), and a historical novel Sor Juana’s Second Dream (University
of New Mexico Press, 1999). She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios:
Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003).
An Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English at the University
of California-Los Angeles, Gaspar de Alba is a native of the El Paso/Juárez
border. She has been researching the crimes since 1998 and organized an
international conference on the murders at UCLA in 2003.
Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories; Under the Feet of Jesus, a novel; and the co-editor, with Maria Herrera Sobek, of two collections: Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. Her latest novel, Their Dogs Came With Them, has just been published by Atria Books. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2006 Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and her writings have been adopted for classroom use and university study. A community organizer and former coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association, she is a frequent reader and lecturer in the U.S. and internationally. Born and raised in East L.A., Viramontes now lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is Professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
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Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.