AnaLouise Keating is a nepantlera, spiritual activist, lifelong student, yoga instructor, and professor at Texas Woman’s University. Keating is the author of many books including The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook and Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change. For more than a decade, first in her role as editor of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas and later as coeditor with Anzaldúa of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, Keating was mentored by Anzaldúa and gained an intimate understanding of her writing process, her philosophy, and her aesthetics. This working relationship has enabled AnaLouise to carry on Gloria’s legacy, editing and publishing her work: The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (a selection of Anzaldúa’s work, including previously published and unpublished essays, poems, drawings, short stories, and emails); Light in the Dark/Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Anzaldúa’s transdisciplinary exploration of imagination, creativity, identity, and metaphysics); and, most recently, Prieta Is Dreaming: A Cuentos-Novela (coedited with Kelli D. Zaytoun and Suzanne Bost).
Gloria Anzaldúa
Born in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was an internationally acclaimed creative writer, cultural theorist, and social-justice activist. Anzaldúa’s work spans multiple genres, including poetry, philosophy, fiction, children’s books, and innovative autobiographical narratives (“autohistoria-teoría”). As the author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping border studies, Chicana feminism, and queer theory. As editor or coeditor of three multicultural anthologies, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary feminist movement. Her posthumous publications, Light in the Dark/luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality and Prieta Is Dreaming, offer groundbreaking interventions in contemporary thought.
