Somos Writers in Berkeley!

Come and S.e.e. Somos en escrito writers Rosa Martha Villarreal, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jake Teran, Scott Russell Duncan, and Alejandro Murguia on Monday November 13th 7pm at
Latinx Research Center in Berkeley.
Link to event on Facbook: https://fb.me/e/6iv2jU3EY

Lorna Dee Cervantes is an American poet and activist, who is considered one of the greatest figures in Chicano poetry. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today."

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Alejandro Murguía is a two-time winner of the American Book Award. His publications include This War Called Love: Nine Stories, City Lights Books. And Stray Poems, also from City Lights in the Poet Laureate Series #6. His short story “The Other Barrio” was recently filmed in the Mission District. He is the first Latino to be named San Francisco Poet Laureate, 2013-2017.
He is currently preparing an anthology of contemporary Mayan poetry.
Website: alejandromurguia.org

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Rosa Martha Villarreal, recently retired as an Adjunct Professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, is author of several important novels including Doctor Magdalena, The Stillness of Love and Exile, and Chronicles of Air and Dreams.

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Jacob “Jake” Teran is a proud Chicano living in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. Jake is a 2nd generation Chicano who was born in Montebello, Los Angeles, east of Los Angeles. He has published one short fictional story at his community college at Rio Hondo College and a master’s thesis for his graduate program, where he obtained his Masters Degree in Rhetoric and Composition. He is currently teaching composition to several departments in two colleges that include indigenous and Chicanx literature. Jake currently lives in the San Gabriel Valley where he is working on a novel based on his experiences growing up in his barrio that deals with gang lifestyle, drugs, violence, and finding one’s identity in a chaotic concrete jungle. 

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​Scott Russell Duncan, a Xicano writer, is senior editor at Somos en escrito Literary Magazine and Press and was editor on the first Chicano sci-fi anthology, El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, which was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.  He is director of Palabras del Pueblo, a writing workshop for la raza. In 2016 his story “How My Hide Got Color” won San Francisco Litquake’s Short Story Contest. His nonfiction piece “Mexican American Psycho is in Your Dreams” won first place in the 2019 Solstice Literary Magazine Annual Literary Contest.  He is at work on a collection of short stories called Plurality. His novel, Old California Strikes Back, a mix of the reality of growing up mixed-raced and of a fantasy tour of California with the head of Joaquin Murrieta will be published in 2023 through FlowerSong Press. www.scottrussellduncan.com​

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