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A Secret Weavers Anthology: Selections from the White Pine Press Secret Weavers Series: Writing by Latin American Women
A selection of work from all twelve volumes of the critically-acclaimed and successful Secret Weavers series.
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1998
About the author
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
7 books3 followersBorn in Philadelphia to a Cuban mother and Irish-American father, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera draws on her unusual perspective in teaching literature, women's studies and ethnic studies at UCCS. The associate director of the Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST) program, she was named a CU President's Teaching Scholar earlier this year. The mother of two daughters and a son also is a poet, essayist, theorist, playwright and novelist.
She is a President's Teaching Scholar and is a recipient of the University of Colorado system-wide Thomas Jefferson Award, and the 2015 Chase Award. She was also selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies and completed a residency in Lublin, Poland in 2006.
In addition to being a published poet and the author of a number of critical essays, she also wrote the novel The Pearl of the Antilles , (Bilingual/Review Press, 2001) - — she even painted the cover art for her book - and is the editor of the essay collection Family Matters in the British and American Novel (Popular Press, 1997) and the literary collection A Secret Weavers Anthology (White Pine Press, 1998), which features the work of contemporary Latin American women writer.
Among her other publications is a collection of testimonial expressions drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States,
She is a President's Teaching Scholar and is a recipient of the University of Colorado system-wide Thomas Jefferson Award, and the 2015 Chase Award. She was also selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies and completed a residency in Lublin, Poland in 2006.
In addition to being a published poet and the author of a number of critical essays, she also wrote the novel The Pearl of the Antilles , (Bilingual/Review Press, 2001) - — she even painted the cover art for her book - and is the editor of the essay collection Family Matters in the British and American Novel (Popular Press, 1997) and the literary collection A Secret Weavers Anthology (White Pine Press, 1998), which features the work of contemporary Latin American women writer.
Among her other publications is a collection of testimonial expressions drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States,
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