 |
|
Writing and Teaching CV
|
 |
|
Romo-Carmona has been on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Goddard College since 1994
teaching fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and critical writing. Some of the class workshops presented at Goddard include The Satellite
Story, The Self-Consciousness of Language: Poetry and Translation, Cortázar and the Latin American Surrealists. Since 2001,
she has been at the JSM Institute for Labor Studies, CUNY, teaching Latin American Literature, Spanish I-III, Writing for
the Social Sciences, and World Classics.
|
|
|
Books
Conversaciones: Writings by Parents of Lesbian and Gay Latinos (Cleis Press, 2001, in Spanish) 2002 Lambda Book Award
winner.
Speaking like an Immigrant (LLHP, 1999), stories (now distributed by Spinsters Ink)
Living at Night (Spinsters Ink, 1997), novel
Queer City (Portable Lower East Side, 1992) Contributing co-editor
Conditions: Seventeen (1990) Contributing co-editor
Cuentos: Stories by Latinas (Kitchen Table Press, 1983) Contributing co-editor
My work also appears in the following anthologies:
In the World of Tea, Birgit Nielsen, ed., Interlink Press
The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next
Wave (Saint Martin's Press, 2000) edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
Electric: Best Lesbian Erotic Fiction (Alyson Books, 1999) edited by Nicole Foster
A Woman Like That (Avon Books, 1999) edited by Joan Larkin
Mother: Candid Memoirs (Alyson Books, 1998) edited by Nisa Donnelly
Lesbian Travels: A Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 1998) edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
A Queer World (NYU Press, 1997) edited by Martin Duberman
Queer Thirteen (Rob Weisbach, 1998) edited by Clifford Chase
Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (LLHP 1987; Routledge, 1994) edited by Juanita Ramos-Díaz
Beyond Gender and Geography: American Women Writers (Affiliated East/West Press, New Delhi, 1994) edited by Aruna Sitesh
Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence (Cleis Press, 1981) edited by Frederique De la Coste and Felice Newman
For Readings, Lectures, Panel Presentations, and Speaking Engagements, please contact me at mariana@livingatnight.com
mariana@livingatnight.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Awards and Fellowships:
Lambda Book Award, for Conversaciones, 2002
National Latino/a Lesbian Gay Organization (LLEGO) Building Bridges Award, 2000
Barbara Smith Literary Criticism Award, 2000
Audre Lorde Project Award, 1998
Fellow- The Millay Colony for the Arts, 1998
New York City Anti-Violence Project Courage Award, 1997
Fellow-The MacDowell Colony, 1997
Las Buenas Amigas Visionary Leadership Award, 1996
Men of All Colors Together, New York Activist Award, 1992
Astraea: National Lesbian Writers Fund Fiction Award, 1991.
Teaching
Faculty; Goddard College, MFA Program in Writing (Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry) 1994-present
Professor; CUNY Labor Studies, Latin American Literature, Spanish, etc. Ongoing since 2001
Program Coordinator; Project Reach: Youth Counseling Advocacy and Organizing Center (New York) 1993-94
Spanish Teacher; Cambridge, Mass. YWCA 1980
Spanish Teacher - Bishop Center, University of Connecticut (1978)
Spanish Teacher -More Hall: Private School for Young Men (Abington, CT) 1977
Spanish and Math Instructor; Windham Adult Education (Willimantic, CT) 1976
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
