One of the most anthologized
of Latina writers, Carmen Tafolla has published work for both children
and adults in more than two hundred anthologies, magazines, journals,
textbooks, and readers. Long considered one of the madrinas of
Chicana Literature and a master of bilingual code-switching, Tafolla is
the author of more than fifteen books, seven screenplays, and numerous
articles and essays.
Many of her works, she says,
are dictated by “ancestors whispering over my shoulder.” Her
book of poetry, Sonnets to Human Beings, received the First Prize
in the Poetry Division of the UCI National Literary Competition, and in
1999, she was awarded the Art of Peace Award by the President’s
Peace Commission of St. Mary’s University for “writing which
contributes to peace, justice and human understanding.”
