For Ana Castillo, a Chicagoan known for her work as an author, educator, poet and activist, home is where her books are. Which, given the pandemic, means a home in the most southern point of New ...

An epic in verse, the story of Castillo's chicana Everywoman—referred to alternately as "She" and "Ella"—begins life in the rough-and-tumble world of California's migrant farm community. Ella's ...

In her introduction to “Black Dove,” Ana Castillo makes it clear that she doesn’t expect every reader to identify with her story. What she asks of the reader is “radical curiosity” seeking the kind of ...

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Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and esaayist. Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and ...

"Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home" is the latest collection of short stories by literary legend Ana Castillo. It features seven beautifully told stories that come to life as they seamlessly straddle the ...

Latina writer Ana Castillo has unlocked some darker moments in her personal life after 40 years of writing award-winning fiction, poetry and nonfiction. “I was adamant about not addressing my own life ...

Ana Castillo reclined on the off-white gallery chair and I apologized for looking like a slob, but where I had to be next required more informal clothing, and so, I apologized — She didn’t laugh but ...

Ana Castillo is a testing writer. Born in the Chicago inner city, she has taught at DePaul until recently, when she moved to New Mexico. Since "The Mixquiahuala Letters," an experimental novel in the ...

If, as Flannery O'Connor once said, the mark of a good story is that it resists summation, the mark of a poor one may be that a summary is better than the whole. The publicity material for Ana ...