SLHW Meeting Tonight

Barbara Renaud Gonzalez will be the featured author at the monthly meeting of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio, at the Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, on Monday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Her novel "Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?" was the first Chicana novel to be published by the University of Texas Press. Here is a link to her blog: http://www.barbararenaud.blogspot.com/

Gonzalez' essays and articles have appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Los Angeles Times and many others. Her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "Latino USA." She was the first Chicana to be a regular monthly columnist on the San Antonio Express-News opinion page. In 2000, she received the Inter-American Press Association Opinion Prize for her "columns that inspire community debate."