Carla Trujillo
Carla (Mari) Trujillo is a Mexican American fiction writer, editor and administrator at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] She has lectured on Ethnic Studies, both at U.C. Berkeley and also Mills College in Oakland, California.[3] She has also taught courses in Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the former Director of the Graduate Diversity Program at U.C. Berkley.[3] In 2003, Trujillo authored her first novel entitled What Night Brings and published it with Curbstone Press. What Night Brings focuses on the Chicana lesbian character, Marci Cruz, and her upbringing in a conservative Catholic home in 1960s Northern California.[4] Through the fictionalized account of Cruz, Trujillo questions issues of patriarchy and homophobia within Chicana/o culture.[5]
Awards
- Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Anthology for Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991, won - editor)[6]
Bibliography
As editor
- Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991)
- Living Chicana Theory (1997)
References
- ↑ "Carla (Mari) Trujillo". Contemporary Authors Online. 2005.
- ↑ "Faith and Fat Chances: An Interview with Carla Trujillo". Los Angeles Review of Books. December 19, 2015. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
- 1 2 Castro, Rafaela G. (2009). Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Carla Trujillo. 2. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press. pp. 617–618. ISBN 9780313348631.
- ↑ Sanchez, Casey (February 5, 2016). "Book Review: "Faith and Fat Chances" by Carla Trujillo". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
- ↑ Danielson, Marivel (2008). ""The Birdy and the Bees: Queer Chicana Girlhood in Carla Trujillo’s "What Night Brings"". Chicana/Latina Studies. 7 (2): 56–95 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Team, Edit (1992-07-14). "4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
- ↑ "Fiction Book Review: WHAT NIGHT BRINGS by Carla Mari Trujillo, Author .". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
- ↑ Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula (2014). "“A Kitchen of Her Own”: Chicana Identity Negotiations Framed Through Foodways in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings" (PDF). Polish Journal for American Studies. 7: 157–173. Retrieved May 18, 2017.