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Acosta, Oscar Zeta A powerful writer and speaker, he wrote two books: The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
Alcalá, Kathleen is a writer who wrote a trilogy on nineteenth century Mexico.
Allende, Isabel Chilean author of the best-selling novel, The House of the Spirits and her newest book, Zorro.
Alurista This poet put the Chicano revolution to verse. Today he looks for his place in a world of changing demographics and hip-hop aesthetics.
Alarcón, Francisco X This Chicano’s book of bilingual poetry for children titled Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera was awarded the 1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association.
Alvarez, Julia Dominican author has given voice to the themes of displacement, alienation, and search for identity in her poetry and fiction. Alvarez won the 2004 Pura Belpre Author Award, for Before We Were Free.
Anaya, Rudolfo is a native Hispanic fascinated by cultural crossings unique to the Southwest, a combination of old Spain and New Spain, of Mexico with Mesoamerica and the anglicizing forces of the twentieth century.
Anzaldua, Gloria helped make visible the literature of women of color in the USA. Her book, which was first published in 1987, Borderlands has become a classic in Chicano border studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago is an award-winning poet and author who learned to read and write while incarcerated in the Arizona prison system on drug charges from 1973-1978. He tells his story in No Place To Stand. He is also the screenwriter for the popular Hollywood movie Blood In, Blood Out.
Barrio, Raymond His works include: The Plum Pickers, Carib Blue, Selections from Walden, and The Fisherman's Dwarf.
Benítez, Sandra In 2004, she received the National Hispanic Heritage Award for literature at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Hispanic Business Magazine named her one of 100 Influential Hispanics in the U.S.
Castillo, Ana She received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters.
Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street has sold over two million copies and is required reading in classrooms across the country, including elementary, middle, high school, and university-level.
Campo, Rafael He is the author of The Other Man Was Me which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award.
Diaz Junot who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Literature and is only the 2nd Latino to get this prestigious award!! His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is phenomenal! It's like nothing I've ever read...Highly recommend it.
Escandón, Maria Amparo A best-selling bilingual storyteller, she published her first novel, Esperanza’s Box of Saints and its Spanish version, Santitos in 1999.
Espada, Martín His last book, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002 received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was named an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year.
Galarza, Ernesto Mexican-American activist and author of Barrio Boy, among other works, he was nominated in 1976 to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for a National Book Award, chronicles the irrevocable effects of the Cuban revolution on the del Pino family from the 1930's to the early 1980's.
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia Chicana writer of the awarding winning mystery novel about the 13-year crime wave resulting in the deaths of 400 women around Júarez, Desert Blood: The Júarez Murders.
Hernandez, Irene Beltran wrote Across the Great River, her first novel for ESL readers dealing with illegal immigration.
Hijuelos, Oscar was the first Hispanic-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his second novel, Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989).
Martinez, Demetria Her autobiographical essays, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, was the winner of the 2006 International Latino Book Award in the category of Best Biography.
Martinez, Manuel Luis Crossing, was named one of 1999's 10 best books by a writer of color by the PEN American Center, a worldwide organization of literary writers. Crossing also was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, an annual national literary award for the best of small press and literary magazine writing.
Najera, Rick is an award-winning writer-director-producer and actor with credits in film, television and Broadway, and the creator of the award-winning hit comedy Latinologues.
Niggli, Josephina One of the first Latina writers to have her work published by the U.S. presses, was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico on July 13, 1910.
Ortiz, Judith Cofer Poet and author of adult and young adult fiction.
Rivera, Edward Family Installments: Memories of Growing up Hispanic tells the author's story of immigration from Puerto Rico to New York City.
Rodriguez, Luis Award-winning poet, activist, and best-selling author of Always Running, his memoir of gang life in East LA and the inevitable death and destruction it leaves behind.
Rodriguez, Richard Hunger of Memory tells the story of this Mexican-American writer's education in English-speaking schools in California and its impact of his life.
Santiago, Esmeralda When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman, this author reflects on growing up in New York.
Soto, Gary Award-winning poet and author of adult, young adult, children's books.
Thomas, Piri Puerto Rican author of Down These Mean Streets made literary history thirty years ago with this lacerating memoir of growing up in Spanish Harlem.
Villaseñor, Victor His latest book, Burro Genius, a memoir of growing up Mexican-American in southern California, is a national bestseller, and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. | List of writers who have submitted sample stories / poems whom are past and present members of the Yahoo!Groups/NetworkAztlan:
César A. Cruz– (teolol) | Terrorist
Jose Garza | 1958 / 1989 | Fronters Nortenas Trilogy
Dr. Shifra Goldman | The Latin American-ization
Phil Goldvarg | Where Do We Go For Healing | Noche de los Muertos
Tomas Rodolfo Gonzales | Polaroid of a Young Boy as an Artichoke
Ralph F. Lopez-Urbina, a.k.a. Rafas c/s | Danny's Guardian Angel | Siquio's Last Thought
Charles Mariano | rivers & oceans and the color of words | do not feed the bears and comida | memoires and mama can't read | lifeflight and poor side of town
Toshka (Humingbird) | The Genocide of Native Americans:A Socialogical View
J. Manuel Urrutia | What does "Raza" mean and where does it come from
This column is in honor of the Los Angeles Latino Writer's Workshop and ChismeArte Magazine, 1977 to 1984:
Daniel Alcosta
Jorge Alvaraz
Max Benavidez
Peter Fernandez
Harry Gamboa, Jr. | Persistant Impressions | Lessons Learned From The Twentieth Century
Manuel "Manazar" Gamboa
Art Godinez
Marcia Gonzales
Dukardo Hinestrosa
Enrique Hank Lopez
Jesus Mena
Joe L. Navarro | Cap 7335
Marisela Norte
Joe Olvera | Jack Kerouac As A Mexican Mary Helen Ponce
Luis J. Rodriguez | Notes of a Bald Cricket
Roberto Rodriguez | Why I Can't Cry
Fernardo Rosel
Naomi Quinonez
Frank Sifuentes
Felipe Chavez-Trejo
David Valjalo
Victor Manuel Valle
Helena Maria Viramontes
MANIFESTOS
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
OTHER LITERARY SITES
CHICANO ART Manisfestos
CHICANO NOVELS by Michael Sedano
CHICANOVISTAS by Harry Gamboa, Jr.
AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies (UCLA)
WRITER'S WEB SITES (In-Progress To Link)
Aaron A. Abeyta Mario Acevedo Marta Acosta Daniel Alarcon Kathleen Alcala Sherman Alexie Lisa Alvarado Aldo Alvarez Francisco Aragon Jimmy Santiago Baca Gonzalo Barr Jose Antonio Burciaga Norma Elia Cantu Reyes Cardenas Lorna Dee Cervantes Denise Chavez Sandra Cisneros Judith Ortiz Cofer Lucha Corpi Eduardo C. Corral Kathleen de Azevedo Abelardo Lalo Delgado Blas Manuel De Luna Maria Amparo Escandan Martin Espada Alex Espinoza Gina Franco Carmen Lomas Garza Alicia Gaspar de Alba Dagoberto Gilb Rigoberto Gonzalez Christine Granados Reyna Grande David A. Hernandez Gilbert Hernandez Jaime Hernandez Rolando Hinojosa Michael Jaime-Becerra Francisco Jiménez Ofelia Dumas Lachtman Mary Helen Lagasse Rene Colato Lanez Joe Latour Ada Limon Graciela Limon Martin Limon Josefina Lopez Lorraine M. Lopez Kermit Lopez Luis A. Lopez Joe Loya Sheryl Luna Demetria Martinez Esteban Martinez Max Martinez Michele Martinez Nina Marie Martinez C.M. Mayo Pat Mora Cherr. Moraga Yxta Maya Murray William Nericcio S. Ramos O'Briant Daniel Olivas Amarico Paredes Emma Perez Emmy Perez Severo Perez Salvador Plascencia Sam Quinones Manuel Ramos John Rechy David Rice Tomas Rivera Jerry A. Rodriguez Luis J. Rodriguez Benjamin Alire Saenz Rual Salinas Ricardo Sanchez Michele Serros Gary Soto Ilan Stavans Paco Ignacio Taibo II Steven Torres Sergio Troncoso Charley Trujillo Luis Alberto Urrea Alfredo Via Gloria Velasquez Angel Vigil Alma Luz Villanueva Tino Villanueva | |||
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