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Set in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, Diana Marie Delgado's debut poetry collection follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction. With bracing vulnerability, the collection chronicles the effects of her father's drug use and her brother's incarceration, asking the reader to consider reclamation and the power of the self.
About the Author
Diana Marie Delgado's first publication, the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust, won the Letterpress Poetry Contest in 2015 and was published by the Center for Book Arts that same year. A graduate of the University of California, Riverside and Columbia University; and a National Endowment for the Arts fellow and recipient of numerous scholarships and grants, she currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.
