Rose Mary Salum

Rose Mary Salum is an author and a publisher. She is the founder of the award winning bilingual magazine Literal Magazine. She is also the founder of Literal Publishing, a bilingual publisher house. She has taught as a visiting professor at Universidad de Iowa, Rice University, and Saint Thomas University.She is a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Her essays and fiction are included in an array of anthologies: Diáspora (Vaso Roto, 2017), Lados B, Narrativa de alto riesgo (Nitro Press, 2016), The Body Subject & Subjected (Sussex Academy Press, 2015), Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors (Hostos Review, 2015), Cruce de fronteras: Antología de escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos (SubUrbano, 2013), Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos (Dislocados, 2012), Raíces latinas, narradores y poetas inmigrantes (Vagón azul, 2012), America nuestra: antología de narrativa en español en Estados Unidos (Linkgua, 2011), Professions (MLA, 2009), among others.

Books

• The Water That Rocks the Silence (Forthcoming)
• El agua que mece el silencio (Vaso Roto, 2015)[1]
• Delta de las arenas, cuentos árabes, cuentos judíos (Literal Publishing, 2013) [2]
• Almalafa y Caligrafía, Literatura de origen árabe en América Latina (Hostos Review) [3]
• Spaces in Between (2006)
• Entre los espacios (Tierra Firme, 2004)

Awards and recognition

• Top Ten Houston Women (2018) [4]
• Premio Panamericano Carlos Montemayor [5] (2017)
• International Latino Book Award (2016) [6]
• Top 35 Latinos [7] (2015)
• International Latino Book Award (2014),
• Mujeres Destacadas Award (2014) [8]
• Author of the Year 2008 by the Hispanic Book Festival (2018),
• Classical Award by Saint Thomas University (2006),
• A Recognition by the Congress of the United States (2005) [9]
• A Runner up for the PEN America’s Nora Magid Award

External links

• Rose Mary Salum on Literal, Latin American Voices
• Official Page