Demetria Martinez
Demetria Martinez is an American activist, poet, and novelist.[1][2]
Early life
She was born on July 10, 1960, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Princeton University with BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[1]
In 1988 Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the US.[3] She was later acquitted of the charges.[3][4]
Career
Martinez has been an editor for the National Catholic Review in Tucson, Arizona, since 1990.[1] She teaches in the annual William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Awards
- International Latino Book Award for best biography (2006): Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (University of Oklahoma Press[5], 2005) [3]
- Western States Book Award for fiction: Mother Tongue (Ballintine, 1997) [1][3]
- Thirteenth Annual Chicano Literary Arts Contest (first prize: poem[6]): "Turning" (Bilingual Press Review, 1989)
Published works
- Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry (includes the poem "Turning"), Bilingual Press/Review (Tempe, AZ), 1989 ISBN 978-0916950910
- MotherTongue, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue (Tempe, AZ), 1994, translated into Spanish by Ana Maria de la Fuente and published as Lengua madre, Seix Barral (Barcelona, Spain), 1996 ISBN 978-0345416568
- Breathing between the Lines: Poems, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1997 ISBN 978-0816517985
- The Devil's Workshop, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 2002 ISBN 978-0816521975
- Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN 978-0806137223
- The Block Captain's Daughter (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN 978-0806142913
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale. 1993.
- ^ a b c d Ndegeocello, Me'Shell (2009). "World Literature Today". The poet as political activist: a conversation with Demetria Martinez. Retrieved December 21, 2015 – via Biography in Context.
- ^ "New York Times". 2 Are Acquitted In Entry to U.S. By Illegal Aliens. 1998. Retrieved December 21, 2015 – via Biography in Context.
- ^ "Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Telgen, Diane (1993). Notable Hispanic American Women, Volume 1. Cengage Gale. pp. https://books.google.com/books?id=dCWqXOE5lmgC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=%22chicano+literary+arts+contest%22&source=bl&ots=EQbXtkBYRB&sig=fbQjXR-8G1LEuLiyjVoe2e9be7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc7M7h7uDdAhVk6YMKHQ_lBdEQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22chicano%20literary%20arts%20contest%22&f=false. ISBN 9780810375789.
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- 1960 births
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- Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 20th-century American poets
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- American Book Award winners