Ana Castillo
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When Anna Castillo was nine years old, she wrote her first poems following the death of her grandmother. She is a writer, poet, editor and educator and also cofounded the literary magazine Third Woman. Ana Castillo now lives in New Mexico.
American Book Award for The Mixquiahuala Letters | Fuller Award for her lifetime achievement as an author, activist, educator and scholar, The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2022 | Independent Publisher Story Teller of the Year Award, 2006 | Sor Juana Achievement Award, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago, 1998
I ask the impossible : | Loverboys : | My father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973-1988 | Peel my love like an onion : | Psst– I have something to tell you, mi amor : | Sapogonia : | So far from God : | The Guardians : | The Mixquiahuala letters | Watercolor women, opaque men : | Women are not roses /