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Oscar Somoza Urquidez Author

He has dedicated his life to teaching and researching Latinx culture, as well as the communities that live along the Mexico-United States border. He has published books and scholarly articles on Latin American and Latinx literature and culture in Mexican, European, and American journals. He has also collaborated as a guest editor and published in Confluencia, The Denver Quarterly, Plural, and Cuadernos Americanos, among other academic journals. Some of his publications include Palabra Nueva: Cuentos Chicanos; Nueva narrativa Chicana; Narrativa moderna Chicana: Principios Fundamentos; and Echoes of Memory: Oscar Torres and the Encounter with 'Voces inocentes'. At the University of Denver, he established relevant programs to engage with the Latinx community and was recognized as an outstanding professor by the Mortar Board of Trustees and the Carnegie Foundation. He has researched Hispanic American and Chicano cinema. Recently, she has dedicated her time to studying the abuses of power by racist groups in the United States, manifested in lynchings and mistreatment of Mexicans from the 19th century to the present. She continues to collaborate with Armando Miguélez Martínez in the rescue, compilation, and publication of short stories, poetry, and essays by a diverse and important group of authors who published in Spanish-language newspapers in the United States between the 19th and 20th centuries. Her most recent collaboration with Armando Miguélez Martínez includes Semblanzas Navideñas en Aztlán (Christmas Semblances in Aztlán, 2021) and La Zorra y el Cangrejo (The Fox and the Crab, 2021).

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ARMANDO MIGUÉLEZ MARTÍNEZ Author

As an educator and relentless researcher in the areas of literature and Chicanx cultural history, he has published books, articles, and essays in Mexico, Europe, and the United States. Currently, he is tracing some of the origins of Chicanx literature from the mid-19th to the first half of the 20th centuries and has recovered important documents published in Spanish-language newspapers in the United States. He published Antología Histórico del cuento literario Chicano 1877-1950, and is coauthor with Óscar Somoza Urquídez of Literatura de la Revolución Mexicana en el exilio: Fuentes para su estudio (Literature of the Mexican Revolution in Exile: Sources for its Study). He also published Jauja: Método Integral de Español para Bilingües (Jauja: A Comprehensive Method of Spanish for Bilinguals), with María Sandoval, and Nuestra Cocina 1918-1928: Rescate de recetas en los periódico Hispanicos de Arizona y California (Our Kitchen 1918-1928: Rescate de recetas en los periódico Hispanicos de Arizona y California), with Fernando Tapia and Daniel García. In 2021, he co-edited the poetry anthology In Xóchitl in Cuícatl: Floricanto: One Hundred Years of Chicanx/Latinx Poetry 1920-2020 with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Juan Velasco. His most recent collaboration with Óscar Somoza Urquídez includes Semblanzas Navideñas en Aztlán (Christmas Semblances in Aztlán), (2021) published in Spanish, and La Zorra y el Cangrejo / The Fox and The Crab (2021) bilingual edition.

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Fernando Tapia Grijalva Author

FERNANDO TAPIA GRIJALVA, was born in Rayón, Sonora, México, and is a full time research professor in the Department of Psychology and Communication Studies at the University of Sonora. He is Director of the long standing research project called “Domination and Subordination: Research Networks and Action in the Sonora/Arizona Borderlands.” He has published the following books: Miguel Bolaños Cacho: Sonnets and Sonatas, and Rayón de los Nacameri: Between Tradition and Modernity. In addition Julio G. Arce: Author and Journalist of the Second Mexican Diaspora in the XX Century in Aztlán with Armando Miguélez Martínez. He also published Our Mexican Cuisine 1918-1928: Recipe Recovery from Arizona and California Spanish Language Newspapers, in collaboration with A. Miguélez and Daniel García Valenzuela.  Dr. Tapia Grijalva co-edited When my Children Become Adults. He has authored several scholarly articles in journals on Chicano culture and exile, and has participated as organizer and presenter on international academic panels on these topics. Currently he is writing a book on the culture of Sonora.