A Salute to Camino del Sol
Two strong Latina writers just published this year will read for us when we salute Camino del Sol, an imprint of the University of Arizona Press, for its dedication to getting Latina/o voices into print. Joining them will be at least one editor from the Press.
Christine
Granados is the author of the story collection Brides and Sinners
in El Chuco, and fiction writer Dagoberto Gilb praises her for “helping
to re-orient Latino literature, away from poignant, romanticized goodygoodyism,
toward stark, complex storytelling.” Born and raised in El Paso, she is
now raising two sons in Rockdale, Texas, where she is a freelance journalist
and writes a column for her local newspaper.
Maria Meléndez’s book is a poetry collection, How Long She’ll Last in the World. Through stunning images and stark realism, her poems embrace motherhood and vocation, love and grief, land and life, and bring new meaning to the natural world and how we experience it. She was awarded a grant from the California Arts Council to support her environmental poetry workshops when she was writer-in-residence at the University of CA at Davis Arboretum. She now teaches writing and multiethnic literature at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
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.