Like most kids, I used to daydream about what my life would look like in the future. I imagined myself driving a baby-blue pickup, a woman sitting beside me, down a long dirt road, listening to music and holding hands. The home I daydreamed about looked like the one I lived in, decorated in images…
Words of Wisdom from Celebrated Author Carla Trujillo
Born in New Mexico and based in California, Carla Trujillo is an esteemed fiction writer, editor, educator and a founding member of the Macondo Writers Workshop that Sandra Cisneros established in San Antonio in 1995. Celebrated for her novel What Night Brings (2003) and her work as editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Chicana…
The Witty World of Franco Mondini-Ruiz
A Quick Biographical Rundown Franco Mondini-Ruiz was born in 1961. He grew up in conservative, white Boerne, Texas. His father is a rakish and artistic immigrant from Italy who grew up during the Mussolini regime. His mother is Mexican-American and the daughter of a severe Spaniard, and she occasionally posed for Franco’s father’s paintings. Franco…
Author Carla Trujillo to read from ‘Faith and Fat Chances’ at Central Library
On Tuesday, November 17, Central Library welcomes award-winning author Carla Trujillo for a reading presented in collaboration with Pride Center San Antonio and Trinity University. Trujillo is expected to read from her recent novel Faith and Fat Chances, published in September by Northwestern University Press. The reading is free and open to the public. A native of New Mexico,…