Alicia Gaspar de Alba

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Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, historian, writer, and poet whose works include novels and scholarly studies on Chicano culture and sexuality.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Works 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Biography from the Cesar Chavez Center at UCLA