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Iris Gomez

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born

Colombia

gender

female

website

http://irisgomez.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

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IRIS GOMEZ is an award-winning writer and nationally-recognized expert on the rights of immigrants in the United States. She is the author of two poetry collections, Housicwhissick Blue (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) and When Comets Rained (CustomWords, 2004), which earned a prestigious national poetry prize from the University of California. Her work is widely published in a variety of literary and other periodicals.

A respected public interest immigration lawyer and law school lecturer, she has represented civil rights groups and individuals in high impact cases and won professional awards for her accomplishments–including a Las Primeras award for Latina trailblazers in Massachusetts. She has frequently been called upon to write and speak on i...more

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Welcome from Iris Gomez, author of TRY TO REMEMBER & Attorney

Welcome! Here's where youlearn about me,myprofessional & literary background, & my books, including mynovel, TRY TO REMEMBER (Grand Central Publishing May 2010) ISBN:987-0-446-55619-4

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Culturally savvy Colombian teenager Gabriela de la Paz,newly arrived in Miami, is adevoted daughter who is trying to keep her volatile and mentally ill father from jeopardiz...