GLORIA ANZALDÚA MILAGRO AWARD

Named in honor of our departed visionary, the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award has been established by the Macondo Foundation to recognize the role of community in taking care of our own and of the importance of taking time out to heal ourselves. The Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award is annually awarded to one or more writers/artists. The award consists of a two-week residency at the Macondo residency house, Casa Azul in San Antonio, Texas.

Gloria Anzaldua Milagro Award Recipient in 2010

The Macondo Foundation is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2010 Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award is Dagoberto Gilb.

Dagoberto Gilb
Dagoberto Gilb is the author of the novel The Flowers, as well as Gritos, Woodcuts of Women, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood, all published by Grove Press.  His work has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and has been a finalist for the PEN Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award.  He also edited Hecho en Tejas:  An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, the canonical volume of Texas Mexican literature published by the University of New Mexico Press, which won the Southwest Book Award for nonfiction.  Anthologized widely, well over 100 works of fiction and nonfiction by him have first appeared in a range of magazines. 
 
Two of Dagoberto’s stories were just published in May within a week of each other—one year after he suffered a stroke—in The New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine, where he has been a past contributor. Here is link to the story “Uncle Rock” and click here to read an interview the magazine did with him.
 
Gilb spent most of his adult years raising a family as a construction worker and a journeyman, high-rise carpenter with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.  He is now the writer-in-residence at the University of Houston-Victoria, where he is also the executive director of the new Centro Victoria, Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture, its mission and project to mainstream Mexican American literature in the public schools of Texas.  Brought up in Los Angeles, Dagoberto lived as many years in El Paso.  He now lives in Austin.


Recipients of the Award:
Pat Little Dog (2009)
ire'ne lara silva (2008)
Lucha Corpi (2007)
raulrsalinas (2007)
Amalia Mesa-Bains (2006)

Note: There is no application process, and we do not accept nominations for the Milagro Award.