Sarah Cortez, September's Guest Speaker

I hope all of you are making plans to attend August's meeting of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio meeting on the 13th at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, beginning at 7:30 p.m. It will feature our quarterly "Cinco Minutos with You" program where a dozen selected members will read to us for 5-minutes from their current works in progress. I would also like to use the opportunity to belatedly celebrate our Society's 3rd birthday!

Sarah Cortez, pictured above, will be our guest speaker for the September 10th meeting of the Society! Sarah is a poet, educator, and law enforcement officer. She is the author of a poetry collection, "How to Undress a Cop," (Arte Público Press, 2000), which won the PEN Texas Literary Award in Poetry, and the recently published "Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives," (Arte Público Press, 2007). She lives and works in Houston, Texas. I hope everyone can make plans to attend!