Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo is a celebrated author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Among her award-winning books are So Far from God: A Novel; The Mixquiahuala Letters; Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me; The Guardians: A Novel; Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel; Sapogonia; and Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (UNM Press). Born and raised in Chicago, Castillo resides in southern New Mexico.
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My Book of the Dead
New Poems
By Ana Castillo
University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology
Edited by Cecilia Caballero, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Judith Pérez-Torres, Michelle Téllez, and Christine X Vega; Foreword by Ana Castillo
The University of Arizona Press
The Chicana M(other)work Anthology is a call to action for justice within and outside academia. This volume brings together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who, using an intersectional lens, center mothering as transformative labor.
- Copyright year: 2019
Massacre of the Dreamers
Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.
By Ana Castillo; Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
University of New Mexico Press
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.
- Copyright year: 2014
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