UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series

Barbara Renaud Gonzalez

Friday, Feb. 20

7:30 p.m.

Assembly Room

John Peace Library (4.03.08)

Barbara Renaud Gonzalez is the author of the novel Golondrina, why did you leave me?, the first Chicana novel to be published by UT Press (forthcoming in April 2009). Her children's book on the life of Willie Velasquez, founder of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, tenatively titled Willie and the Flood/Su Voto es Su Voz, is under consideration at Arte Publico Press.

This reading is sponsored in conjunction with the Macondo Foundation, which works with dedicated and compassionate writers who view their work and talents as part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change.