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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593574183048-7EZF0765S5YQ1MUEBIPL/jalonzo.jpg Authors - Jesús Alonzo - Jesús Alonzo JESÚS ALONZO is a self-taught Chicano joto playwright, poet, and storyteller originally from the Southside of San Anto, Tejas. In his writing, Alonzo explores issues of identiy as they relate to race, culture, class, education, language, immigration, gender, and sexual orientation. Drawing inspiration from his father and the Mexicano sensibility for albures (sexually charged puns, or double entendre), Alonzo enjoys using humor as a literary element for inviting audiences to examine the real life struggles his characters must face. Alonzo is also the author of Jotos del Barrio and Miss America: A Mexianito Fairy’s Tale, also produced and presented at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in 2009. Alonzo earned a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies from Carleton College in 1998 and a Masters of Arts in Counseling from the University of Texas in San Antonio in 2006. Alonzo is an avid runner/half-marathoner working hard to become a marathoner, long-time public school educator, bilingual education teacher and advocate, and a school mental health professional. He currently resides in San Antonio, TX, with his mero-mero-life-compañero, their family of two cats, Autumn and Pimienta, and his personal life coach/dog, Nico Spitzer. Photo Credit: -JPL PRO- Julián Pablo Ledezma https://www.korimapress.com/authors/maya-chinchilla monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593574483677-TPUR4FQSFXXF5H5E36E8/mchinchilla.jpg Authors - Maya Chinchilla - Maya Chinchilla MAYA CHINCHILLA is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. Born and raised in Long Beach, CA, by a mixed class, mixed race, immigrant activist extended family, Maya has lived and loved in the Bay Area for the second half of her life. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology, and is quoted (and misquoted) in essays, presentations and books on U.S.-Central American poetics; Chicana/Latina literature; and identity, gender, and sexuality. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. Photo credit: Río Yañez https://www.korimapress.com/authors/joe-jimenez monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593575371391-N5F6BKQEWV55T8J2JNRI/jjimenez.jpg Authors - Joe Jiménez - Joe Jiménez JOE JIMENEZ is the author of the poetry collection The Possibilities of Mud and Bloodline, a young adult novel. Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jiménez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017 to 2020. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Author website: joejimenez.net https://www.korimapress.com/authors/dr-t-osa-hidalgo-de-la-riva monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593575949968-29QWTUDO94Y8N484IGCR/obhidalgo.jpg Authors - Dr. T. Osa Hidalgo de la Riva - Dr. T. Osa Hidalgo de la Riva DR. T. OSA HIDALGO DE LA RIVA is an internationally renowned filmmaker, public scholar, and writer. Holding three master’s degrees in Film Production, English & Creative Writing (both San Francisco State University), and History of Consciousness (University of California at Santa Cruz), she received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Eagle Bear, as she is also known, taught Erotic Women of Color: The Case of Hollywood and Sexuality, Gender and Media in the University of Southern California’s Critical Studies Division. From 2008 to 2013, she taught Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary Film at the University of California at Berkeley and in 2012 was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Public Scholar Award from the University’s Ethnic Studies Department. Dr. Hidalgo de la Riva’s films include Mujería (part I): The Olmeca Rap, Mujería (part II): Primitive and Proud (both formally distributed by Women Make Movies, New York), and, Two Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men (Third World Newsreel, New York). The Mujería films debuted in San Francisco, CA, at the Kabuki Theater and Roxie Cinema, respectively, and attracted capacity audiences. “Las Olmecas,” Dr. Hidalgo de la Riva’s animation artwork, was selected to be part of the award-winning 500 years of Chicana Women’s History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana, edited by Dr. Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez. Dr. Eagle Bear has lectured and spoken at numerous film festivals, seminars, community centers, and universities throughout California and nationally, as well as internationally in México, Canada, and Europe. https://www.korimapress.com/authors/pablo-miguel-martnez monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593816819934-QR7TER3QEJFVQOHX02YT/pmmartinez.jpg Authors - Pablo Miguel Martínez - Pablo Miguel Martínez PABLO MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Americas Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, BorderSenses, Comstock Review, effing magazine, Harpur Palate, Gay and Lesbian Review, Inkwell, La Voz de Esperanza, Lodestar Quarterly (online) New Millennium Writings, North American Review, QP: queer poetry (online) and the San Antonio Express-News. His prose has been published in El Aviso (NALAC), and in the San Antonio Current, where he was a frequent contributor, as well as in the El Paso Times and in La Voz de Esperanza. His poetry has been anthologized in Best Gay Poetry 2008 (A Midsummer Night’s Press), Poetic Voices without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009), Queer Codex: Chile Love (Evelyn Street Press/allgo, 2004), and Warriors and Outlaws (Kokopelli Publications/Dallas Poets Community, 2003). His work also appears in the forthcoming anthology, This Assignment Is So Gay (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013). In 2009 he received the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Artistic Excellence; in 2007 he received the Oscar Wilde Award. Pablo was awarded the prestigious Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in 2005. His literary work has also received support from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation. Pablo has read his work at numerous venues, including the University of Texas at Austin; Austin International Poetry Festival; McKinney Ave. Contemporary Art Center (Dallas); Katherine Anne Porter House (Kyle, TX); Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia); Poetry at Round Top. In San Antonio, he has read his work at Bihl Haus Gallery, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Gemini Ink, Our Lady of the Lake University’s Poetry Festival, San Antonio Poetry Festival, San Antonio Public Library, Southwest School of Art, and Trinity University. Pablo has taught English at Our Lady of the Lake University (San Antonio) and at Lone Star College (Houston). He holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Texas State University-San Marcos. In addition to being a Founding Member of CantoMundo, a national retreat-workshop for Latina/o poets, Pablo has also participated in Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Writers’ Workshop. Currently Pablo lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his life-partner, Henry Cantú. Photo Credit: Amada Chávez Núñez https://www.korimapress.com/authors/lorenzo-herrera-y-lozano monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593575217392-IORIFLAQ2GXCJJ4TYNC0/lherrera.jpg Authors - Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano - Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano LORENZO HERRERA Y LOZANO is the founder and publisher of Kórima Press. He is the author of the poetry collections, Amorcito Maricón and Santo de la Pata Alzada and co-author of Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry (Kórima Press), which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. A member of the Macondo Writer’s Workshop, he is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love (allgo/Evelyn Street Press), and, Queer Codex: Rooted (allgo/Evelyn Street Press). His work has appeared in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry, For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough, and Queer in Aztlán, as well as the journals, ZYZZYVA and Yellow Medicine Review. Born in California, raised in Chihuahua, and trained in Texas, his creative and nonfiction writing seek both beauty and sorrow in their excavation of crevices created by the clashes and contradictions between the places, people, and ideas he has desired and loved. https://www.korimapress.com/authors/denise-benavides monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593574419410-97DGR2AASV31GNBFC3SF/dbenavides.jpg Authors - Denise Benavides - Denise Benavides DENISE BENAVIDES is a performance artist, poet, and educator based in the San Diego / Tijuana border. Her debut collection SPLIT was published by Kórima Press and was a finalist for the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Award. She has toured & performed internationally using the page and stage to confront themes of xenophobia, homophobia, migration, mental health, race, and love. Always love. In her most recent tour with Radar Productions for the 20th Anniversary of Sister Spit, the artist collective offered a critical, intersectional and often humorous lens to issues of feminism, race, size, class, identity, technology, gender and sexuality through storytelling. She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow dropout, but holds a MFA from Mills College. Her work can also be found at Third Woman Press’ zine Gonna Be Alright (Vol. 2), Fat City Review, Ground Protest Poetry, The Feminist Wire, and Anxy Magazine. Ultimately, Benavides writes to document and hold space for what has been lost--most of all, she writes for the women in her family. Author website: www.denisebenavides.com. Photo Credit: Tomo Saito https://www.korimapress.com/authors/adelina-anthony monthly 0.5 2020-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593573755225-T1VALC71BWVP3PM49SW8/aanthony.jpg Authors - Adelina Anthony - Adelina Anthony ADELINA ANTHONY is a self-identified Xicana lesbian multi-disciplinary artista. The themes in her works address colonization, feminism, trauma, memory, gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, in/migration, health, land/environment, and issues generally affecting the lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/ two-spirited communities. With 20 years of experience acting, directing, writing and producing for theater, Anthony has garnered numerous nominations, honors and awards. One of her critically acclaimed solo plays, Bruising for Besos, has taken Anthony in a new and exciting direction, making a full transition as a writer-actor-director-producer for independent film. Forgiving Heart, her first short film as a writer-director is based on the teenage years of Yoli Villamontes, the protagonist of Bruising for Besos. The short film world-premiered at the Outfest Fusion LGBT Queer People of Color Film Festival’s Gala Screening in 2013, and has been turned into its own feature length screenplay. In addition, Anthony’s You’re Dead To Me was written as a participant of Film Independent’s Project Involve, and world-premiered at the L.A. Film Festival the summer of 2013. Because of her participation in Film Independent’s Project Involve program, she was awarded the 2013 Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship. Working with her current screenwriting mentor, Ruth Atkinson, Anthony is developing the feature screenplay, But Not Buried, which is inspired by the Project Involve short film. Along with Marisa Becerra, Anthony is the co-founder/producer of the independent film company, AdeRisa Productions, based in Ventura, CA. The company is dedicated to producing bold, entertaining, and high caliber queer/trans people of color films—with an emphasis on X/Chicana stories. At the time of publication of this book, AdeRisa Productions is in the process of fundraising for its first feature film, Bruising for Besos. It is her intention to adapt The Beast of Times into an animated feature film in the future. A prolific artist, Anthony has been recognized by her communities and critics as one of the leading solo performers of her generation. She has been featured in Colorlines Magazine, Frontiers Magazine, Adelante Magazine, Lesbian News Magazine, Texas Monthly Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Queer Codex: ROOTED! and other publications. Author website: www.adelinaanthony.com https://www.korimapress.com/authors/cathy-arellano monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593574364161-I1YARCFOQX4PH02UMI7W/carellano.jpg Authors - Cathy Arellano - Cathy Arellano Just another writer from The Mission, CATHY ARELLANO worked as a community poet with Loco Bloco and Mission Girls; and at the Mission Cultural Center, Everett Middle, and Mission High Schools through the San Francisco Arts Commission’s WritersCorps program; Horace Mann Middle School with the Mexican Museum’s community arts workshop; and elementary schools in the Richmond District with the California Poets in the Schools literary series. Later, she became a faculty member in the English Departments at John O’Connell and Leadership High Schools. Arellano’s work is published in print and online, including La Bloga, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, Cipactli, Curve Magazine, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, Duke City Fix, El Tecolote, Feminist Formations, Fourteen Hills, Huizache, Label Me Latino, The Malpaís Review, The Más Tequila Review, Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Arts Journal, Tongues Magazine, La Voz, and Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, which responds to Arizona’s SB 1070 law that legalized racial profiling and allowed police to stop people suspected of being in the U.S. without papers. She has won awards from the San Francisco Art Commission, the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists. Arellano left the Mission and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico on the Three to Five Year Plan that turned into seven. She found a vibrant and supportive group of folks that helped resurrect her writing life. Arellano believes deeply in the power of art and community and is grateful to the artists and activists she has created and marched with and been inspired by in the Mission, the Bay, Búrque, and beyond. Photo Credit: Rebeka Rodriguez https://www.korimapress.com/authors/joseph-delgado monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593817556028-VV4U4VQ6Z026HAMYMGCM/josephdelgado.jpg Authors - Joseph Delgado - Joseph Delgado JOSEPH DELGADO was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from Saint Pius X High School in Albuquerque and attended The College of Santa Fe. His work has previously appeared in The Santa Fe Literary Review, Trajectory, and Collective Brightness: LBGTQ Poets on Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press). He currently resides on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave Valley, Arizona. https://www.korimapress.com/authors/michael-nava monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593575571266-1F4JZ5Z3969MSCTHRKKY/mnava.jpg Authors - Michael Nava - Michael Nava MICHAEL NAVA is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels won seven Lambda Literary awards and Nava was called by the New York Times, “one of our best.” In 2001, he was awarded the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs. In 2014, he published The City of Palaces a historical novel set in the years just before and at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Novelist Christopher Bram said about The City of Palaces: “City of Palaces begins as the love story of two good people, a Catholic and an atheist, who find each other in the corrupt world of belle epoch Mexico City. It grows into a magnificent epic about family, politics, art, revolution, and hope. This is a masterly work of old-fashioned storytelling, rich and spacious and moving, a novel that deserves to be compared to The Leopard, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Doctor Zhivago, but with its own intimacy and grandeur.” Nava has also had a distinguished legal career, having earned his law degree from Stanford University. He retired from the law in July 2016. Author website: http://michaelnavawriter.com https://www.korimapress.com/authors/anel-flores monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593816669239-7OC1BXP6V1IHYUE331IN/aflores.jpg Authors - Anel Flores - Anel Flores ANEL I. FLORES’ areas of study and production of literary fiction and visual art center around Chicana/Latina literature, lesbianidad, sexuality, gender, race/border/diaspora, spirituality, body, blood memory and their connection to identity. She is an MFA in Creative Writing. She is Co-Reviewer and Co-Committee Member of El Mundo Zurdo Conference organized by the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, Board Member of Macondo Writer’s Workshop, Founder of Queer Voices Speak Out, Co-Founder of LezRideSA, and a member of the San Antonio Mayor’s LGBTQIA Task Force. Flores was awarded Women’s Advocate of the Year 2018 from University of Texas San Antonio, the Nebrija Creadores Award from the Universidad de Alcala de Henares in Madrid, Spain, was named Best Of San Antonio Local Author 2017, the Chingona in Literature Award 2016, the Ancinas Award at Squaw Valley, the NALAC Fund for the Arts Award, the Acción Women Inspiring Women Award, the Yellow Rose of Texas Educator Award, and the Mentorship Leadership Award from the National Performance Network. She is co-editor of forthcoming Jota Anthology with Kórima Press and author of Lambda literary award nominated book Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. Among various anthologies and magazines, Flores’ work can be found in Camino Real , the Fifth Wednesday Journal, RiverSedge Literary Journal, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art with UT Press, The Jota Anthology, Queer Spiritualities, Rooted: A Queer Women of Color Anthology, El Mundo Zurdo Anthology, The Brillantina Project, Sinister Wisdom, This City Is A Poem, Raspa Magazine, OutInSA Magazine, iungo Arts Magazine, the Lodestar Quarterly, The Pitkin Literary Review and La Voz de Esperanza. Her play Empanada toured for 8+ years throughout the University and Theater circuit and continues to be produced today. She is currently in the process of completing her forthcoming book, Cortinas de Lluvia, a series of Children’s books and a graphic memoir titled, Pintada de Rojo. Her teaching career includes 11 years the public high school/college/university, along with 4 years in Arts Administration, and continuous community literary workshops.. Author website: anelflores.com Photo: Sasha Fuentes Watt https://www.korimapress.com/authors/claudia-rodriguez monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593575662112-TBP0ZAC7I1DDJZ329BGM/crodriguez.jpg Authors - Claudia Rodriguez - Claudia Rodriguez CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ is a writer/performer from Compton, she received her MFA in creative writing from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her work has appeared in Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing (Caroll and Graf 2006), Blithe House Quarterly (Fall 2005), Chicana/Latina Studies: the journal of MALCS (Fall 2004 Issue), Trepan, Tongues Magazine, The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Latino Arts Anthology, and Westwind: a Journal of Critical Studies out of UCLA. Claudia received an Emerging Lesbian Writer award from the Astraea Foundation in 2001. She has taught at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA and is a founding member of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP), a sketch-driven performance/ installation/video ensemble. Her first collection of poetry Everybody’s Bread was published by Kórima Press in 2014. Author website: agentezeroocho.blogspot.com https://www.korimapress.com/authors/dino-foxx monthly 0.5 2020-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef51e54eae6c4220109d319/1593574934823-UXPHSDD7NWKEEDH2TODW/dfoxx.jpg Authors - Dino Foxx - Dino Foxx Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, DINO FOXX is a nationally presented actor, singer, dancer, writer, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, arts educator and activist. He is a founding member of Tragic Bitches (a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative), a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. and an emcee with the band, The Push Pens. Andrés Duque of Blabbeando has described his poetry as following “themes of family unity and disunity, ethnic bonds and divisions, assimilation and displacement as well as sexuality and love.” His poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press), the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing (2007), and Queer Codex: Chile Love (Evelyn Street Press/allgo). Foxx will also be featured in the upcoming poetry collection Joto: An Anthology of Queer Xicano & Chicano Poetry through Kórima Press. As a member of the artistic company at Jump-Start, Dino Foxx has produced, written for, worked on the technical team of, or performed in over 50 original performances including Epcot el Alamo, all developed with Guillermo Gomez-Peña (2004), Memoirs of a Jot@ - Part 1 (2007), and Last Call for Truth written with Manuel Cros Esquivel and Billy Muñoz. As his fire-eating gender-bending burlesque alter-ego Foxxy Blue Orchid, Foxx produces and performs as a member of the Stars and Garters Burlesque All-Star Cast and is a co-producer and host for the San Antonio Burlesque Festival. Photo: Troy Wise