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Books Published by Macondistas


Alex Espinoza
  • Stillwater Saints (Random House, 2007)
Alicia Gaspar De Alba
  • The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories (Bilingual Press, 1993)
  • Sor Juana's Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999)
  • Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (Arte Publico Press, 2005)
  • Calligraphy of the Witch (St. Martin's Press, 2007)
  • Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge, in Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry (Bilingual Review Press, 1989)
  • La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: poetry y otras movidas, 1985-2001 (Arte Publico Press, 2003)
  • Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition (University of Texas Press, 1998)
  • Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003)
Amada Irma Pérez
  • My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito (Children's Book Press, 2000)
  • My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla (Children's Book Press, 2002)
  • Nana's Big Surprise/Nana que sorpresa! (Children's Book Press, 2007)
Amalia Mesa-Bains
  • Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art
  • Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism [w/ Bell Hooks]
Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes
  • Maria Amparo Ruis de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives [w/ Anne Elizabeth Goldman]
Ardis Burst
  • The Management Game (Viking, Penguin) [w/ Leonard Schlessinger]
  • The Three Families of H.L. Hunt (Grove Wiedenfeld)
  • The Customer Learning Curve [w/ Karl Hellman]
Carla Mari Trujillo
  • What Night Brings
  • Living Chicana Theory
  • Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
Carlos Cumpian
  • Coyote Sun (March Abrazo Press, 1990)
  • Latino Rainbow (Children's Press/Scholastic Press, 1994)
  • Armadillo Charm (Tia Chucha Press, 1996)
  • Smoking Skulls — Forthcoming chapbook
Carmen Tafolla
  • The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans (Wings Press, 2008)
  • That’s Not Fair! Story of Emma Tenayuca (Wings Press, 2008) [w/Sheryl Tenayuca]
  • What Can You Do With A Rebozo? (Tricycle Press, 2007)
  • Sonnets and Salsa (Wings Press, 2001)
  • Sonnets to Human Beings and other Selected Works(1st edition, Lalo Press, Santa Monica, 1992)
  • Curandera (1st edition M&A, 1983)
  • Get your Tortillas Together (Rifan Press, 1976)
  • To Split a Human: Mitos, Machos, y la Mujer Chicana (Mexican-American Cultural Center, 1985)
  • My house is your house: Mi Casa es su casa (Rigby, U.S.A. edition, 2000)
  • Baby Coyote and the Old woman/ El Coyotito y La Viejita (Wings Press, 2000)
  • Take a Bite (Celebration Press, 1997)
  • The dog who wanted to be a Tiger (Celebration Press, 1996)
  • El Perro quien quiere ser un tigre (Celebration Press, 1996)
  • El Coyotito y La Viejita (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
  • El Dia que el Armadillo Vio Su Sombra (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
  • Patchwork Colcha: Poems, Stories and Songs In English and Spanish (C.E.E, 1987)
Carolina Monsivais
  • Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso: Testimonies of a Poet (Wings Press, 2000)
Celeste Guzman
  • Cande te estoy llamando (Wings Press, 1999) — chapbook
Cynthia Gallaher
  • Night Ribbons (Polar Bear Press, Chicago, 1990)
  • Swimmer's Prayer (Missing Spoke Press, Seattle, 1999)
  • Earth Elegance (March Abrazo Press, Chicago, 2000)
  • Botanical Bandwidth: Poems about Medicinal Plants and Herbs — Forthcoming
Dagoberto Gilb
  • Winners on the Pass Line (Cinco Puntos Press, 1986)
  • The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico, 1993)
  • The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna (Grove, 1994)
  • Woodcuts of Women (Grove, 2001)
  • Gritos (Grove, 2003)
  • Hecho en Tejas (University of New Mexico, 2007), Editor
  • The Flowers (Grove, 2008)
Deborah A. Miranda
  • Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press, 1999)
  • The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Press (EarthWorks series, 2004)
  • Deer — chapbook
  • Written on the Bark of Trees — Forthcoming
  • The Light From Carrisa Plains: a Tribal Memoir — Forthcoming
Denise Chávez
  • A Taco Testimony: Mediations on Family, Food and Culture (Rio Nuevo Publishers)
  • Loving Pedro Infante (Vintage)
  • Por El Amor de Pedro Infante (Vintage Español)
  • The Last of the Menu Girls (Vintage)
  • La última de Las Muchachas del Menú (Vintage Español)
  • Face of An Angel (currently out of print))
  • La Mujer Que Sabía El Idioma de Los Animales (out of print))
Dorothy Allison
  • The Women Who Hate Me: Poems by Dorothy Allison
  • Trash: Short Stories
  • The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990
  • Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
  • Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
  • Cavedweller
  • She Who — Forthcoming
Erasmo Guerra
  • Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men in Love (1999), Editor
  • Between Dances (Painted Leaf Press, 2000)
Elva Trevino Hart
  • Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Fan Wu
  • February Flowers (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
  • Beautiful as Yesterday (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Francisco Aragón
  • Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005)
  • The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007), Editor
Gabriela Jauregui
  • Controlled Decay (Akashic Books / Black Goat Press, 2008) — Forthcoming
John Olivares Espinoza
  • Gardeners of Eden (Chicano Chapbook Series, 2000)
  • Aluminum Times (Swan Scythe Press, 2002)
  • The Date Fruit Elegies (Bilingual Press, 2008) — Forthcoming
John Phillip Santos
  • Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
  • Songs Older Than Any Known Singer
Joy Harjo
  • How We Became Human; New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2002)
  • A Map to the Next World (W.W. Norton, 2000)
  • The Good Luck Cat (Harcourt, 2002)
  • Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of North America (W.W. Norton, 1997), Editor
  • The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W.W. Norton, 1994)
  • In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan University Press,1990)
  • Secrets from the Center of the World (University of Arizona Press, 1989)
  • She Had Some Horses (Thunder’s Mouth Press, Avalon Books,1985)
  • For a Child Becoming (University of Arizona Press, Fall 2009) — Forthcoming
Leslie Larson
  • Breaking Out of Bedlam (Random House/Shaye Areheart Books) — Forthcoming
  • Slipstream (Random House/Shaye Areheart Books, 2006)
Levi Romero
  • In the Gathering of Silence
  • A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (UNM Press, 2008) — Forthcoming
Liliana Valenzuela
  • The Poetry of Rice Fields. A Long Poem (2003) — chapbook
  • Mujer frontera, mujer Malinche (2002) poetry — chapbook
  • Bocas palabras, Carpeta de Poesía Luz, no. 1, Voces Selectas poetry chapbook (Luz Bilingual Publishing, 1997)
Lorraine Lopez
  • Soy La Avon Lady and Other Stories (Curbstone, 2002)
  • Call Me Henri (Curbstone, 2005)
  • The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters (Hachette/Grand Central, 2008)
  • Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories (BkMk Books, 2009)
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
  • Santo de la Pata Alzada: Poems from the Queer/Xicano/Positive Pen
Lucha Corpi
  • Palabras de mediodía/Noon Words (Fuego de Aztlán & Arte Público Press)
  • Variaciones sobre una tempestad/Variations on a Storm (Third Woman Press)
  • Fireflight: Three Latin American Poets (Oyez, 1976)
  • Delia's Song (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1989)
  • Eulogy for a Brown Angel (Arte Público Press hardcover 1992, paperback 2002)
  • Cactus Blood (Houston: Arte Público Press,1995)
  • Black Widow's Wardrobe (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1999)
  • Crimson Moon (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2004)
  • Death at Solstice — Forthcoming
  • Where Fireflies Dance/Ahí, Donde Bailan Las Luciérnagas (Children's Book Press)
  • The Triple Banana Split Boy/Diente dulce (Arte Público Press, 2009) — Forthcoming
  • Máscaras: Chicana Writers on Their Writing (Third Woman Press, 1994), Editor
Luis J. Rodriguez
  • Music of the Mill: A Novel
  • The Republic of East L.A.
  • It Doesn’t Have to be This Way: A barrio story
  • America is Her Name
  • My Nature is Hunger
  • The Concrete River
  • Poems Across the Pavement
  • Trochemoche: Poems
  • Hearts and Hands: creating community in violent times
  • Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
Nely Galan
  • The Swan Curriculum
Rene Colato Lainez
  • Waiting for Papá/ Esperando a Papá
  • I Am René, the Boy/ Soy René, el niño
  • Playing Lotería/ El juego de la lotería
  • My Shoes and I — Forthcoming
  • René Has Two Last Names/ René tiene dos apellidos — Forthcoming
  • Un cuento de colores/ A Tale Full of Colors — Forthcoming
Richard Blanco
  • City of a Hundred Fires (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998)
  • Directions To The Beach Of The Dead (University of Arizona Press, 2005)
Ron Drummond
  • Why I Kick At Night (Portlandia Press, 2004)
Ruth Behar
  • An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
  • Everything I Kept: Poems in Prose/Todo lo que guardé: Poemas en prosa
  • The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
  • Translated Woman
  • Women Writing Culture
  • Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba
  • The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village
  • The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World
  • La Cortada
  • Women On The Verge Of Home
Sandra Cisneros
  • The House on Mango Street (Arte Publico Press, 1988)
  • Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, Random House, 1991)
  • Bad Boys (Mango Press, 1980)
  • My Wicked, Wicked Ways (Third Woman Press, 1987)
  • Loose Woman (Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, 1994)
  • Hairs/Pelitos (Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, 1994)
  • Caramelo (Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, 2002)
  • Vintage Cisneros (Vintage Books, 2004)

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

  • Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004)
  • 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers' Tales, 2007)
  • Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Washington Square
    Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008)
  • Best Women's Travel Writing 2010, editor (Travelers' Tales, 2010)
Trey Moore
  • we forget we are water (Wings Press 2006) — chapbook
  • Some Will Play Cello (Pecan Grove Press)
Wendy Call
  • Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University/Co-edited with Mark Kramer (Plume/Penguin, New York, 2007)