AQLF at Decatur Book Festival: Rigoberto Gonzalez Editor "Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing"

Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing

Sunday, 2:30 Decatur Conference Cntr Stage (Ballroom A)

Rigoberto Gonazalez is the Editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and author of eight other books. His awards include a Guggenheim, an NEA, The Poetry Center Book Award and the Before Columbus American Book Award for his memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa. He is contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Executive Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, on the Board of Directors of Fishouse Poems: A Poetry Archive, and on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He writes twice a month a Latino book column, now entering its seventh year, for the El Paso Times of Texas.

Here's an interview with Rigoberto from last year:




Rigoberto's books include: Camino del Sol: 15 Years of Latina and Latino Writing, The Mariposa Club, Men without Bliss, Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, Antonio's Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio, Soledad Sigh-Sighs/Soledad Suspiros, Crossing Vines, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until it Breaks.