Betty ana castillo biography

Ana Castillo is an acclaimed Chicana/Latina poet, novelist, and essayist as well as editor and translator. Born in Chicago on 15 June 1953, she received a B.A.

degree from Northern Illinois University in 1975, an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1979, and a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1991.

Betty ana castillo biography

A self-proclaimed Xicanista, or Chicana, feminist, Castillo is innovative and provocative in her writing. She is known for her poetry collections, novels such as The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), So Far from God (1993), and Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999), and nonfiction such as Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1994).

Castillo's honors include two NEA fellowships (1990, 1995), the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1987) and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award in Fiction (1993). The Ana Castillo Archives are housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

See alsoHispanics in the United States; Literature