4: Ben & Daniel talk with Lorraine Lopez, author of "Soy La Avon Lady and Other Stories" and "The Realm of Hungry Spirits," among other works. She talks about looking back on her older works, and how living in the South (she is an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University) affects her writing.
The Poems of the Week are from the late American poet, Stanley Kunitz.
This week's Poetic License contribution is by Hawaii resident Craig Santos Perez, who reads a poem by Hawaiian poet, Juan Malo, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
This week's Poetic License contribution is by Hawaii resident Craig Santos Perez, who reads a poem by Hawaiian poet, Juan Malo, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Lorraine M. López teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and she is an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Voices of Mexico, CrazyHorse, Image, Cimarron Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly/Narrative Magazine, and Latino Boom. Her short story collection, Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories (Curbstone Press, 2002) won the inaugural Miguel Marmol prize for fiction. Her second book, Call Me Henri (Curbstone Press 2006) was awarded the Paterson Prize for Young Adult Literature, and her novel, The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters, released in October of 2008 from Grand Central Press, is a Borders/Las Comadres Selection for the month of November. Lopez´s short story collection, Homicide Survivors Picnic, is due out from BkMk Press in September 2009, and she has edited a collection of essays titled An Angle of Vision: Women Writers Discuss Their Poor Or Working Class Roots that is due out in December from the University of Michigan Press.
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