Label Me Latina/o Fall 2022 Volume 12
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Essays
By Tracy A. Stephens
Tracy A. Stephens is Assistant Professor of English and General Education at Queens University of Charlotte. Her areas of specialization are postcolonial studies, contemporary American literature, multiethnic American literature, and disability studies. She is especially focused on US imperialism and neocolonial discourses in American literature.
By Keishla Rivera-Lopez
Keishla (Kay-shla) Rivera-Lopez is a writer, poet, and scholar. She received a PhD in American Studies at The Graduate School-Newark at Rutgers University where she was awarded the 2019-2020 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship to finish her dissertation project titled “Writing Freedom: Puerto Rican Women’s Literary Conceptualizations of Motherhood and Memory Beyond Archives.” She was born and raised in Newark, NJ to Puerto Rican migrants and reflects on what it means to be a child of diaspora in her scholarship and writing. Currently, Dr. Rivera-Lopez is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies at Montclair State University.
Las aventuras de don Chipote o cuando los pericos mamen
By Yamicela Torres Mollinedo
Yamicela Torres Mollinedo has a degree in Spanish and Literature and a Masters in Communicative Teaching of Spanish and Literature from the Felix Varela Pedagogical University, Santa Clara, Cuba. She also has an MA in Arts in Spanish from Florida International University. She has worked as a Spanish teacher in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. She currently works as Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Miami. She is a PhD candidate in Spanish at Florida International University.
Poetry
By Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a poet, visual artist, and facilitator. Her work is informed by her Indigenous ancestry, Mesoamerican philosophy, Mexika & Mixtec art, Mexican culture, Raza history, and her experiences as an Indigenous Mexican Chicana woman. She served as 2021 Creative Ambassador of the San José Office of Cultural Affairs and has facilitated generative poetry workshops for universities and non-profit organizations. Elizabeth earned a BFA in Art and a BA in French from San José State University. She hosts Cultura Poetry Night as a Board Member of Poetry Center San José, serves as a reader for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, and is the Director & Editor of La Raíz Magazine. www.ejmontelongo.com
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By David Michael Martinez
David Michael Martinez holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State, and a BA in Spanish and an MA in English from Chico State where he was a Mechista, ballet folklórico dancer, and a founder of the Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity. Currently an Instructional Program Specialist with the Migrant Education Program in northern California, he works with children of migrant workers teaching creative writing, persuasive writing, and speech. His poems have been published in the Americas Review; Saguaro (University of Arizona Mexican American Research Foundation); Flies, Cockroaches and Poets (Fresno State’s Chicana/o Writers and Artists Association); the Great American Wise Ass Anthology; and Label Me Latino/a.
Short Stories
By Eduardo R. del Rio
Eduardo R. del Rio was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His Latino identity informs much of his work, including this story. He is an NEH Fellow, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino Literature and One Island, Many Voices: Interviews with Cuban-American Writers from the U of Arizona Press, as well as having authored numerous national and international peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a retired full professor from the University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville campus. His latest prose and poetry can be found in The Journal of Caribbean Literature, Fictive Dream, and Voices de la Luna. His hybrid collection of poetry and short prose CubaRícan is forthcoming (2023) from Mouthfeel Press.
By Margarita Dager-Uscocovich
Margarita Dager-Uscocovich es autora de la novela corta No es tiempo de morir que ha sido acreedora en su primer año de vida a dos premios en Estados Unidos como mejor novela de ficción en español y mención honorifica por los ILBA 2019 y 2020 como mejor novela de aventura y drama y Las queremos vivas con mención honorífica, Ilba 2022. Sus poemas, relatos cortos y micro relatos forman parte de antologías publicadas en España, México, Argentina, Uruguay, Estados Unidos de América y Berlín, Alemania. La nostalgia hacia su cultura y el valor de sus tradiciones, se dibujan en varios de sus relatos cuyo eje principal es la mujer. Su segunda novela Las queremos vivas nos lleva de la mano a descubrir por qué Charlotte se ha convertido en la cuarta ciudad de Estados Unidos, donde el tráfico humano, el acoso y la violencia de género extiende sus alas para marcar a nuestra sociedad. Actualmente sus artículos de opinión se leen en el periódico La Nación Ec. Asimismo ha colaborado con la revista La Nota Latina de la ciudad de Miami con sus artículos de viaje, con la revista VozEs de Charlotte y con la Revista Latina NC.
Para esta escritora, el escribir en español es un acto sagrado, sin embargo, en la actualidad ella considera que hacerlo es más bien un acto de valentía.
