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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]

Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
• Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me (Tentative Title) (University of Texas Press, 2009) — Forthcoming

Carla Mari Trujillo
• What Night Brings
• Living Chicana Theory
• Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About

Carlos Cumpia
• 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

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)

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)

Trey Moore
• we forget we are water (Wings Press 2006) — chapbook

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)