(1982), The Legend of La Llorona (1984), The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas
(1985), Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcóatl (1987), Alburquerque (1992),
and Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert (1996). His series of detective novels
featuring detective Sonny Baca includes Zia Summer (1995), Rio Grande Fall
(1996), Shaman Winter (1998), and Jemez Spring (2005). He has also written the
plays The Season of La Llorona (1987) and Matachines (1992) and a collection of
travel essays, A Chicano in China (1986).
Rane Arroyo (1954– )
Poet and playwright born in Chicago to Puerto Rican parents. He is the author
of the poetry collections Columbus’s Orphan (1993), The Singing Shark (1996), Pale
Ramón (1998), and Home Movies of Narcissus (2002).
Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952– )
Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Indio-Chicano parents. After being sentenced
to five years in prison, he learned to read and write. He is a prolific writer whose
works include Martín; and, Meditations on the South Valley (1987), which was
awarded the Before Columbus American Book Award for poetry, and Winter
Poems along the Rio Grande (2004). He is also the author of a screenplay, Bound by
Honor (1993), and a memoir, A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet (2001).
Ana Castillo (1953– )
Chicana poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her novels include The Mixquiahuala
Letters (1986), Sapogonia (1990), So Far from God (1993), Peel My Love like an
Onion (1999), and The Guardians (2007). Loverboys (1996) is a collection of short
stories. She also published My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems, 1973–1988
(1995).
Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954– )
Chicana–Native American poet who is the author of Emplumada (1981), which
won the American Book Award, and Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger
(1991). She is also the founder of Mango, the name of both her poetry magazine
and press.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)
Korea-born and California-raised writer known for the experimental novel Dictée
(1982).
Jeffery Paul Chan (1942– )
Chinese American writer who coedited Aiiieeeee! (1974) and The Big Aiiieeeee!
(1991) and cofounded the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco
State University. He is the author of the novel Eat Everything before You Die: A
Chinaman in the Counterculture (2004).
Denise Chávez (1948– )
Chicana author who began her career as a writer of one-act plays but found rec-
ognition for The Last of the Menu Girls (1986), a collection of interrelated stories
published as a novel. Her other works include Face of an Angel (1994) and Loving
Pedro Infante (2001).