Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, historian, writer, and poet whose works include novels and scholarly studies on Chicano culture and sexuality.
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Biography
Alicia Gaspar de Alba comes from the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. She is a lesbian professor of English and Chicano/a Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Awards
- Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery (2005)
- International Latino Book Award for Best English-Language Mystery (2005)
- Latino Literary Hall of Fame for Best Historical Fiction (2000)
- Border-Ford/Pellicer-Frost Award for Poetry (1998)
- Shirley Collier Prize for Literature (UCLA)(1998)
- Premio Aztlán (1994)
- Massachusetts Artists' Foundation Fellowship Award in Poetry (1989)
Works
- Calligraphy of the Witch (2007) (not yet released)
- Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (2005)
- La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras (2003)
- Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (2003)
- Sor Juana's Second Dream (1999)
- Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House (1998)
- The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories (1993)
External links
- Biography from the Cesar Chavez Center at UCLA
