Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, historian, writer, and poet whose works include novels and scholarly studies on Chicano culture and sexuality.

Biography

Alicia Gaspar de Alba comes from the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. She is a lesbian professor of English and Chicano/a Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards

*Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery (2005)
*International Latino Book Award for Best English-Language Mystery (2005)
*Latino Literary Hall of Fame for Best Historical Fiction (2000)
*Border-Ford/Pellicer-Frost Award for Poetry (1998)
*Shirley Collier Prize for Literature (UCLA)(1998)
*Premio Aztlán (1994)
*Massachusetts Artists' Foundation Fellowship Award in Poetry (1989)

Works

*"Calligraphy of the Witch" (2007) (not yet released)
*"Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders" (2005)
*"La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras" (2003)
*"Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities" (2003)
*"Sor Juana's Second Dream" (1999)
*"Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House" (1998)
*"The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories" (1993)

External links

* [http://www.chavez.ucla.edu/gaspar.html Biography] from the Cesar Chavez Center at UCLA


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