Amalia Ortiz wins American Book Award

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Congratulations to Amalia Ortiz for winning the American Book Award in Oral Literature for her book, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs! 

Kudos to Aztlan Libre Press, the awardee's publisher, and our sister publishing house for Latino literature, based in San Antonio. Purchase the book from them here.

​To read an excerpt published by Somos en escrito in July 2019,
click here.

Click here or on the video below to hear the author's acceptance speech (at around 1:20) during the Before Columbus Foundation's 41st Annual American Book Awards.