Label Me Latina/o Spring 2024 Volume 14

February 2, 2024 edited by Label Me Latina/o
Filed under: Spring 

Essay

Words Tattooed in Their Veins

by Jessica Daves 

Jessica Daves received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2019 and currently teaches at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. She loves teaching all levels of Spanish and has a particular interest in cultural and literature courses taught in either Spanish or English. Her research interests include the study of identity and identity formation in U.S.-published Latinx works.

Poetry

Empanadas: Sweet

by Connie Ramirez

Connie Ramírez was born in East Chicago, IN, and spent the majority of her life in Chicago, IL. She is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant father and a Tejano mother.  She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.  She has studied Spanish and English literature in both her undergraduate and graduate studies and is an alum of Purdue University and Saint Xavier University (Chicago). She has been a teacher of English, Spanish, art, and creative writing and a reading interventionist. She has written several essays, poems, and short stories in both languages. Her work has been published by The Acentos Review. “Empanadas: Sweet” was inspired by the nostalgia of a Midwestern family Christmas tradition.

El olvido / The Oblivion

by Neyda H. Long 

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Neyda H. Long holds a licentiate degree in Psychology from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello, a Graduate Diploma in Behaviour Modification from Simon Bolivar University and an MEd. Educational Foundations and Counseling from the University of New Brunswick. She obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from the University of New Brunswick. In 2016. her first anthology of poems El comienzo inconcluso was published. Her first bilingual (Spanish-English) Children’s Story Book The  Flower/ La Bella Flor has been published in Spanish, English, French and Arabic. Her poems and short stories appear frequently in the  quarterly literary publication The Apostles Review and her work has appeared in the following anthologies Construyendo memorias: Escritoras latinoamericanas en el nuevo milenio and Hilar historias: Antología de escritoras latinoamericanas. She has resided in Fredericton since 1983.

Short Story

La Jaula de los Pájaros

by Elizabeth Muñoz 

Elizabeth Muñoz is a student at CSU East Bay where she is getting her degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Chicanx and Latinx Studies. As a first-generation Latina she hopes to write stories that create a bond with her readers. Elizabeth lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two children and their dogs.

A Look Back to Move Forward

by Samuel Rodriguez

Samuel Rodriguez was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived there his whole life.  His parents were born in México.  He writes short stories, most of them with Mexican American characters that he hopes readers of any ethnic background can understand.

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