MAYA CHINCHILLA Living Writers Series - Memories of Gloria Anzaldúa Thursday, January 29 at 6:00 PM at the Humanities Lecture Hall 206 Maya Chinchilla, a UCSC alumn, is a Central American/Guatemalan poet performer, video artist, and educator. She is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, and has over 15 years of performance, teatro, and curation experience. Her work deals with themes of historical memory, laughter in heartbreak, family secrets, joy, love, ferocity, tenderness, and ultimately the fight for justice and the telling of our own stories. In 2013-2014 Maya was invited to perform at “Our Mission, No Eviction” at the Brava Theater, the San Francisco Lit Crawl, the “Lunada Literary Lounge” at Galeria de La Raza as a featured poet and at MCCLA’s International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8; the 2014 San Francisco Jazz Festival (featuring poet laureate Alejandro Murguia) April 4; the Bay Area Latino Poetry Festival April 12 and will was featured in the Cipactli Literary Journal published by SFSU’s Latina/o studies department. She founded and co-edited La Revista at UC Santa Cruz, co-edited Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry with Karina Oliva and has published her work in Las Girlfriends, Stanford’s Americas y Latinas, Mujeres de Maiz, Sinister Wisdom, Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women, and most recently the MALCS blog Mujeres Talk. Maya’s first collection of poetry and stories The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética” published by Kórima Press, in June 2014 with the support of the National Queer Arts Festival. For updates go to mayachapina
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