Gabriel Márquez
Gabriel Márquez was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for One Hundred Years of Solitude. In both his shorter and longer fictions, García Márquez achieved the rare feat of being accessible to the common reader while satisfying the most demanding of sophisticated critics.
Read more about Márquez here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nobel-Prize
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her novel The House on Mango Street. Published in 1984, The House on Mango Street won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award and has become required reading in K-12 education. Before her awards, Cisneros worked as a creative writing teacher for elementary all the way to higher education.
Read more about Cisneros here: https://www.sandracisneros.com/mylifeandwork
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, queer theory, poet & writer. Her poems and essays explore the anger and isolation of occupying the margins of culture and collective identity. Her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) and her essay “La Prieta” are considered groundbreaking works in cultural, feminist, and queer theories.
Read more about Anzaldúa here: https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/gloria-e-anzaldua
Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora is an author from El Salvador. His poetry was featured in Best New Poets 2013 and appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Zamora is also the author of Solito (2022), a memoir about migrating from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old.
Read more about Zamora here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/javier-zamora
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