Miriam Sagan and Ana Consuelo Matiella Poetry reading on Zoom Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Ana Consuelo Matiella was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and raised in Ambos Nogales by a clan of Spaniards and Mexicans. Her fondest memories are of spending late Sonoran afternoons with her mothers, tías and madrinas, drinking café con leche, listening to their stories and trying to make sense of the world. Ana Consuelo is a fotonovela producer and health communications consultant. Her first book was The Truth About Alicia and Other Stories, a Camino del Sol book published by the University of Arizona Press. Ms Matiella is author of Las Madrinas: Life Among My Mothers - Tres Chicas Press She is a storyteller and Co-Founder and Content Director of De Las Mias, a bilingual digital platform for Latinas. Ms Matiella is author of Las Madrinas: Life Among My Mothers - Tres Chicas Press. She was a columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican for over 10 years and has written extensively on Multicultural Health Education. She divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon.From A Hundred Cups of Coffee January 17, 2016 Cup #14 Home, kitchen table, instant coffee I saw this on waking… a clearing in the dream thicket deciduous woods, like childhood wherever that was, and snow ankle deep goose girl, you’ve run again from those who would rape and starve you with a pocket full of berries or Red Riding Hood, you put on your hat the silly mittens with every finger knitted a different color and finally the hoodie the color of what is supposed to stay inside but doesn’t always comply—blood, rage, a desire to put yourself first to not bring the basket of delicacies to the demented grandmother who asks repeatedly is that for me? and—where are my car keys? better to sit and drink the wine yourself as if there were no wolf because maybe there isn’t and to walk in the opposite direction
of what you were told to. Miriam Sagan ******* The truth about Alicia was that she wasn't that stable to begin with. So when she did what she did, no one was very surprised. Still, it was shocking, the way she followed them from the hardware store to the woman's house, the way she broke the sliding glass door with the tire jack, the way she found them in bed. It was more than she could take, her being seven months pregnant and all. It only took two shots. excerpt from The Truth About Alice The Truth About Alice and Other Stories University of Arizona Press 2002 Ana Consuelo Matiella
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