32: Ben & Daniel talk with Lucrecia Guerrero, author of "Tree of Sighs," a book which won Guerrero the 2012 Premio Aztlan, a national literary prize awarded to emerging Chicana & Chicano authors. Guerrero talks about what inspires her characters as well as the mostly-male Chicano writers who have influenced her. Guerrero also shares her reading wish list.
The Poem of the Week comes from another prize winner, Laurie Ann Guerrero. Guerrero is the most recent recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. Daniel reads the poem "Preparing the Tongue" from Guerrero's collection "A Tongue in the Mouth of Dying."
Lucrecia Guerrero's short stories have appeared in literary
journals such as The Antioch Review and The Louisville Review. CHASING
SHADOWS, her collection of linked short stories was published by Chronicle Books in 2000. TREE of SIGHS, 2011, was published by Bilingual Press. She is the recipient of awards from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Montgomery County Cultural Awards and residencies from Hedgebrook for Women, New York Mills, and Fundacion Valparaiso. Guerrero holds an MFA from Spalding University and enjoys facilitating writers' workshops. She grew up in Nogales, Arizona on the U.S.-Mexico border but has lived in the Midwest for years.
(Taken from http://www.thelatinoauthor.com/authors/G/Lucrecia_Guerrero/ )
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