Ana Castillo

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Ana Castillo--TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR interview by Claudia D. Hernández
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_YhsGdikBw. Claudia D. Hernandez
Ana Castillo (June 15, 1953-) is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has contributed to periodicals and on-line venues (Salon and Oxygen) and national magazines, includingMore and the Sunday New York Times. Castillo's writings have been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations and publications. Among her award winning, best sellling titles: novels include So Far From God, The Guardians and Peel My Love like an Onion, among other poetry: I Ask the Impossible. Her novel, Sapogonia was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has been profiled and interviewed on National Public Radio and the History Channel and was a radio-essayist with NPR in Chicago. Ana Castillo is editor of La Tolteca, an arts and literary 'zine dedicated to the advancement of a world without borders and censorship and on the advisory board of the new American Writers Museum in D.C. Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University, The Martin Luther King, Jr Distinguished Visiting Scholar post at M.I.T. and was the Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College in Utah in 2012, among other teaching posts throughout her extensive career. Ana Castillo holds an M.A from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D., University of Bremen, Germany and an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters. Her other awards include a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. She was also awarded a 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. Dr. Castillo's So Far From God and Loverboys are two titles on the banned book list controversy with the TUSD in Arizona. 2013 Recipient of the American Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Prize to an independent scholar. Dr. Castillo will hold the Lund-Gil Endowed Chair at Dominican University (IL) in 201

TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR~Book and Photography
Exhibit.
Interviews by: Claudia D. Hernández

This is an ongoing project that features everyday women who are nonetheless role models such as: artists, activists, editors, writers, poets, painters, social workers, teachers, professors, therapists, and mentors.

I want young women in my community to know about these revolutionary women of color RIGHT NOW while they are still alive, so that they do not have to rely solely on retroactive history books, long after they've passed.

These women share their stories of resilience through short-filmed interviews, creative photography shots of them, and exceptional artistic writing pieces.

Through their various talents, as well as their example of courage and love, these revolutionary women of color help us all celebrate and influence our communities. Their stories of resilience will be included in the photography book that will be given to all the women who attend the opening night of the photography exhibit.