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Diana Garcia (born 1950 San Joaquin Valley) is a Latina poet.
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Life
She was raised in Merced, California and is the oldest of three children. Her parents were migrant field workers who lived in a farm labor camp, California Packing Company Camp #15, when she was born. She was graduated from Merced High School in 1968 and and attended Fresno State College for one year before leaving college to work and care for her son. She graduated from San Diego State University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She then was chosen to fill a one-year visiting professorship at Central Connecticut State University. Upon completion of that one-year contract she was hired as a full-time professor. She teaches creative writing at California State University, Monterey Bay.[1]
Awards
- 2001 American Book Award
Works
- When living was a labor camp. University of Arizona Press. 2000. ISBN 9780816520435.
Anthologies
- Rick Heide, ed (2002). "Cotton Rows, Cotton Blankets". Under the fifth sun: Latino literature from California. Heyday Books. ISBN 9781890771591. http://books.google.com/books?id=5OcUk814uYoC&lpg=PA540&dq=Diana%20Garcia&pg=PA262#v=onepage&q=Diana%20Garcia&f=false.
- John S. Christie, José B. Gonzalez, ed (2006). Latino boom: an anthology of U.S. Latino literature. Pearson/Longman. ISBN 9780321093837.
- Gary Soto, ed (1993). Pieces of the heart: new Chicano fiction. Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811800686.
- Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman, Diana García, ed (2009). Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816527939.
- Ray González, ed (1998). Touching the fire: fifteen poets of today's Latino renaissance. Anchor Books/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385478625.
References
External links
Categories:- 1950 births
- American poets
- San Diego State University alumni
- California State University, Monterey Bay faculty
- Living people
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