Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and esaayist. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has one son, Marcel Ramón Herrera, born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 21, 1983. Long considered one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and abroad.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986)
So Far from God (1993)
Sapogonia (1994)
Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)
Watercolor Women / Opaque Men (2005)
The Guardians (2007)
Give It To Me (2014)
So Far from God (1993)
Sapogonia (1994)
Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)
Watercolor Women / Opaque Men (2005)
The Guardians (2007)
Give It To Me (2014)
Collections
The Invitation (poems) (1979)
Women are Not Roses (poems) (1984)
My Father Was a Toltec (poems) (1988)
Loverboys (1996)
I Ask the Impossible (poems) (2001)
My Book of the Dead (poems) (2021)
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home (2023)
Women are Not Roses (poems) (1984)
My Father Was a Toltec (poems) (1988)
Loverboys (1996)
I Ask the Impossible (poems) (2001)
My Book of the Dead (poems) (2021)
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home (2023)
Plays show
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Ana Castillo
Latinx Rising (2020)
An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by
Matthew David Goodwin
Ana Castillo recommends
Anita de Monte Laughs Last (2024)
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