Author and Poet Ana Castillo

Posted on Friday, November 14

“Whether [she] is writing poetry, essays, or fiction, her work sizzles with equal measures of passion and intelligence.” Donna Seaman, Booklist

Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and esaayist. Born and raised in Chicago, she is considered one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and abroad. Ilan Stavans writes “She is the most daring and experimental of Latino novelists.” Castillo’s books include The Guardian (2007), So Far From God (Norton, 1993), which earned her both the Carl Sandburg Literary Award in Fiction of 1993, Sapogonia (1992), Massacre of the Dreamers: Reflections on Mexican-Indian Women in the United States 500 Years After the Conquest (1992), and The Mixquiahuala Letters, for which she received the Before Columbia Foundation’s American Book Award in 1987. Alvina Quintana, critic of Chicana literature, believes that “Castillo’s style reflects the influence and power of many of Latin America’s greatest writers.”

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 8:00pm
Ana Castillo

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