MOTHERS AND SACRIFICE

Natalia Treviño has won several awards for her poetry and fiction, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Literary Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and the Menada Literary Award from the Ditet e Naimit Poetry Festival in North Macedonia. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Macondo Writers Workshop, and a winner of the Academy of American Poets Ambroggio Prize for cotranslating Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours. She is the author of VirginX and Lavando la Dirty Laundry. Her work has been anthologized in Inheritance of Light: Contemporary Poetry; Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers; Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry; and published in journals including Poetry, Plume, The Southern Poetry Anthology, BorderSenses, Sugar House Review, and riverSedge. 

She is joining us at the Book Festival for her two new books: a novel, The Road Back, and a poetry collection, When You Were Human.