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Jasminne Mendez
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JASMINNE MÉNDEZ is a Macondo and Canto Mundo Fellow, as well as a Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) alumna. She is the author of a multi-genre memoir, Island of Dreams (2013) , winner of an International Latino Book Award. She lives and works in Houston, Texas.
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Melissa Castillo-Garsow
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Dr. Melissa Castillo Planas is a Mexican- American writer, poet and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. She is the author of the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple, editor of the anthology, ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades and co-author of the novel, Pure Bronx. Her current book project, forthcoming with Rutgers University Press' new Global Race and Media series, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the creative...
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