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ABOUT SOBRE
Somos en escrito Magazine and Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press is dedicated to publishing raza authors to express the narratives and needs of our communities, which typically get overlooked by the mainstream presses. We intend to be the institution nobody else will build for us.
We seek to publish books that look to the future, where gente exist, that finds solutions in storytelling, rather than provide mere visibility. We promote narratives that break cycles, call to action: fiction that goes hand in hand with our nonfiction books that allow our community to do more than gaze in the mirror, but meditate on solutions within, the future, and transformation.
Our entirely volunteer-operated project is made possible by the generous contributions of readers like you. Muchas gracias!
We seek to publish books that look to the future, where gente exist, that finds solutions in storytelling, rather than provide mere visibility. We promote narratives that break cycles, call to action: fiction that goes hand in hand with our nonfiction books that allow our community to do more than gaze in the mirror, but meditate on solutions within, the future, and transformation.
Our entirely volunteer-operated project is made possible by the generous contributions of readers like you. Muchas gracias!
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Book Awards
El Porvenir ¡Ya! The first Chicano sci-fi anthology: 2022 International Latino Book Awards, honorary mention in "Best Fiction - Multi-Author." 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, finalist.
Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub by R. Ch. Garcia: 2022 International Latino Book Awards, honorary mention in "Best Novel - Fantasy."
Our Grandfathers were Braceros by Abel Astorga Morales, Rosa Martha Zarate Macias: 2022 International Latino Book Awards, first place in "The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award."
Postcards from a PostMexican by Álvaro Ramírez: 2021 International Latino Book Awards, third place in "The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English."
Theorizing César Chávez by Armando Arias: 2020 International Latino Book Awards, finalist in "Victor Villaseñor Latino Focused Nonfiction Book – English."
Insurgent Aztlán The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance by Ernesto Todd Mireles: 2020 International Latino Book Awards, second place in "Best Political/Current Affairs Book – English."
Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub by R. Ch. Garcia: 2022 International Latino Book Awards, honorary mention in "Best Novel - Fantasy."
Our Grandfathers were Braceros by Abel Astorga Morales, Rosa Martha Zarate Macias: 2022 International Latino Book Awards, first place in "The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award."
Postcards from a PostMexican by Álvaro Ramírez: 2021 International Latino Book Awards, third place in "The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English."
Theorizing César Chávez by Armando Arias: 2020 International Latino Book Awards, finalist in "Victor Villaseñor Latino Focused Nonfiction Book – English."
Insurgent Aztlán The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance by Ernesto Todd Mireles: 2020 International Latino Book Awards, second place in "Best Political/Current Affairs Book – English."
STAFF
FORMER STAFF
ADVISORYBOARD
Rosa Martha Villarreal, recently retired as an Adjunct Professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, is author of several novels including Doctor Magdalena, The Stillness of Love and Exile, and Chronicles of Air and Dreams. She writes a periodic column, Tertulian’s Corner, for Somos en escrito.
Roberto Haro, an administrative executive for major universities in the U.S. and a longtime activist in education and social concerns affecting Latinidad, is an essayist and author of several novels dealing with war dramas, crime mysteries, historical fiction and romance.
Lucha Corpi, an internationally recognized poet, novelist and children’s book writer, is the author of the Gloria Damasco Mystery series, which includes Eulogy for a Brown Angel(1992), Cactus Blood (1995), and Death at Solstice (2009). Her first poetry collection,Palabras de mediodía/Noon Words, was reissued by Arte Público Press in 2001. The recipient of numerous awards and citations, she taught in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for more than 30 years.
Raina León is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, the author of three collections of poetry, and a founding editor of and online quarterly, “The Acentos Review.”
Álvaro Ramirez, a Michoacán native of Purépecha ancestry, has a doctorate in Spanish Golden Age and 20th Century Latin American Literature from the University of Southern California. As a member since 1993 of the Department of Modern Languages at Saint Mary’s College of California, he has taught these areas as well as Mexican and Latino Cultural Studies. He recently published in Spanish a collection of his trans-border short stories.
Maceo Montoya, an Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis, teaches courses in Chicano Literature and the Chicana/o Mural Workshop. Also an accomplished artist , he is the director of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a community-based art center in Woodland, California, and the author of several acclaimed works of fiction.
Maria Nieto is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, East Bay where she has been involved in underrepresented minority recruitment, teaching, and research for more than 30 years. She excels beyond the field of science as an award-winning novelist of crime fiction.
Cecile Pineda, born in New York City’s Harlem became active in theater San Francisco from 1969 to 1981, producing and directing her own experimental theater company. She turned to fiction and her many books are widely acclaimed as have her other works. A peace activist from early life, she has focussed more recently on issues affecting the sustainability of the planet.
Armando Arias is a professor and founding faculty member in the division of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Global Studies at CSU Monterey Bay. A social psychologist by trade, he is the senior project manager for the Street Smart Think TankTM, which designs initiatives that reflect on key insights and new ideas for communities, and a founding Board member of the InterAmerican College. He writes a regular column for Somos en escrito titled,Chicano Confidential.
David Vela, born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, now resides in Northern California where he writes poetry, short stories, book reviews and interpretive essays of literary criticism. David has taught in Paris where he researched and lectured on the Modern Intellectual and did research at the Institut du Monde Arabe. He taught for 22 years in the English Department at Diablo Valley College. His two manuscripts, Irish Literary Influence on Jorge Luis Borges, and al-Andalus: What we inherit from Muslim and Jewish Spain in Jorge Luis Borges’ and Carlos Fuentes’ writing merge his interest in Latin America, Spain and Ireland.
Rosa Martha Villarreal, recently retired as an Adjunct Professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, is author of several novels including Doctor Magdalena, The Stillness of Love and Exile, and Chronicles of Air and Dreams. She writes a periodic column, Tertulian’s Corner, for Somos en escrito.
Roberto Haro, an administrative executive for major universities in the U.S. and a longtime activist in education and social concerns affecting Latinidad, is an essayist and author of several novels dealing with war dramas, crime mysteries, historical fiction and romance.
Lucha Corpi, an internationally recognized poet, novelist and children’s book writer, is the author of the Gloria Damasco Mystery series, which includes Eulogy for a Brown Angel(1992), Cactus Blood (1995), and Death at Solstice (2009). Her first poetry collection,Palabras de mediodía/Noon Words, was reissued by Arte Público Press in 2001. The recipient of numerous awards and citations, she taught in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for more than 30 years.
Raina León is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, the author of three collections of poetry, and a founding editor of and online quarterly, “The Acentos Review.”
Álvaro Ramirez, a Michoacán native of Purépecha ancestry, has a doctorate in Spanish Golden Age and 20th Century Latin American Literature from the University of Southern California. As a member since 1993 of the Department of Modern Languages at Saint Mary’s College of California, he has taught these areas as well as Mexican and Latino Cultural Studies. He recently published in Spanish a collection of his trans-border short stories.
Maceo Montoya, an Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis, teaches courses in Chicano Literature and the Chicana/o Mural Workshop. Also an accomplished artist , he is the director of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a community-based art center in Woodland, California, and the author of several acclaimed works of fiction.
Maria Nieto is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, East Bay where she has been involved in underrepresented minority recruitment, teaching, and research for more than 30 years. She excels beyond the field of science as an award-winning novelist of crime fiction.
Cecile Pineda, born in New York City’s Harlem became active in theater San Francisco from 1969 to 1981, producing and directing her own experimental theater company. She turned to fiction and her many books are widely acclaimed as have her other works. A peace activist from early life, she has focussed more recently on issues affecting the sustainability of the planet.
Armando Arias is a professor and founding faculty member in the division of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Global Studies at CSU Monterey Bay. A social psychologist by trade, he is the senior project manager for the Street Smart Think TankTM, which designs initiatives that reflect on key insights and new ideas for communities, and a founding Board member of the InterAmerican College. He writes a regular column for Somos en escrito titled,Chicano Confidential.
David Vela, born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, now resides in Northern California where he writes poetry, short stories, book reviews and interpretive essays of literary criticism. David has taught in Paris where he researched and lectured on the Modern Intellectual and did research at the Institut du Monde Arabe. He taught for 22 years in the English Department at Diablo Valley College. His two manuscripts, Irish Literary Influence on Jorge Luis Borges, and al-Andalus: What we inherit from Muslim and Jewish Spain in Jorge Luis Borges’ and Carlos Fuentes’ writing merge his interest in Latin America, Spain and Ireland.