Cultural Crossings
at Cleveland State University presents
Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
Saturday, October 10th from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Main Classroom 134
of Latin American Studies Programs, for
U.S. published titles that authentically
and engagingly portray Latin America,
the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United
States. The novel was also included on
the New York Public Library’s “Books for
the Teen Age 2004 List.” A PEN/Martha
Albrand Special Citation in non-fiction was
awarded to her for Silent Dancing, also the
Anisfield Wolf Book Award for The Latin
Deli, and her work has been selected for the
Syndicated Fiction Project. She has received
fellowships from the NEA and the Witter
Bynner Foundation for poetry. A collection
of short stories, An Island Like You: Stories
of the Barrio, was named a Best Book of
the Year, 1995-96 by the American Library
Association. It was awarded the first Pura
Belpre medal by REFORMA of ALA in
The Meaning of Consuelo was selected as one 1996. La linea del sol, the Spanish translation
of two winners of the 2003 Americas Award, by Elena Olazagasti-Segovia of The Line
sponsored by the National Consortium of the Sun, was published in 1997 by the
Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of A Love
Story Beginning in Spanish, poems, Call Me
Maria, a young adult novel; The Meaning of
Consuelo, a novel; Woman in Front of the Sun:
On Becoming a Writer, a collection of essays;
The Line of the Sun, a novel; Silent Dancing,
a collection of essays and poetry; two books
of poetry, Terms of Survival and Reaching for
the Mainland; and The Latin Deli: Prose and
Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Georgia
Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review,
Glamour and other journals. Her work has
been included in numerous textbooks and
anthologies including: Best American Essays
1991, The Norton Book of Women’s Lives, The
Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton
Introduction to Poetry, The Heath Anthology
of American Literature, The Pushcart Prize,
and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
University of Puerto Rico Press. In 1998,
The Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected
Stories and Poems was awarded a Paterson
Book Prize by the Poetry Center at Passaic
County Community College. The Spanish
translation by Elena Olazagasti-Segovia
of Silent Dancing, Bailando en silencio was
published by Arte Publico Press in 1998.
She is the 1998 recipient of the ChristJanner Award in Creative Research from
the University of Georgia. The Rockerfeller
Foundation awarded her a residency at the
Bellagio, Italy Conference Center in 1999.
During spring 2001, she was Vanderbilt
University’s Gertrude and Harold S.
Vanderbilt Visiting Writer in Residence.
Judith Ortiz Cofer is the Franklin Professor
of English.
For more information please contact
Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera at 216.523.7168
or [email protected].
This program is sponsored by Cultural Crossing at Cleveland State University and Institutional Diversity.
Cultural Crossings
at Cleveland State University presents
Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
Saturday, October 10th from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Main Classroom 134
The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review,
Southern Review, Glamour and other
journals. Her work has been included
in numerous textbooks and anthologies
including: Best American Essays 1991,
The Norton Book of Women’s Lives,
The Norton Introduction to Literature,
The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The
Heath Anthology of American Literature,
The Pushcart Prize, and the O. Henry
Prize Stories.
Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish, poems,
Call Me Maria, a young adult novel; The
Meaning of Consuelo, a novel; Woman in
Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer, a
collection of essays; The Line of the Sun,
a novel; Silent Dancing, a collection of
essays and poetry; two books of poetry,
Terms of Survival and Reaching for the
Mainland; and The Latin Deli: Prose
and Poetry. Her work has appeared in
The Meaning of Consuelo was selected as
one of two winners of the 2003 Americas
Award, sponsored by the National
Consortium of Latin American Studies
Programs, for U.S. published titles that
authentically and engagingly portray
Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos
in the United States. The novel was
also included on the New York Public
Library’s “Books for the Teen Age 2004
List.” A PEN/Martha Albrand Special
Citation in non-fiction was awarded to
her for Silent Dancing, also the Anisfield
Wolf Book Award for The Latin Deli,
and her work has been selected for the
Syndicated Fiction Project. She has
received fellowships from the NEA
and the Witter Bynner Foundation for
poetry. A collection of short stories, An
Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, was
named a Best Book of the Year, 1995-96
by the American Library Association. It
was awarded the first Pura Belpre medal
by REFORMA of ALA in 1996. La linea
del sol, the Spanish translation by Elena
Olazagasti-Segovia of The Line of the Sun,
was published in 1997 by the University
of Puerto Rico Press. In 1998, The Year of
Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories
and Poems was awarded a Paterson Book
Prize by the Poetry Center at Passaic
County Community College. The
Spanish translation by Elena OlazagastiSegovia of Silent Dancing, Bailando en
silencio was published by Arte Publico
Press in 1998.
She is the 1998 recipient of the ChristJanner Award in Creative Research
from the University of Georgia. The
Rockerfeller Foundation awarded her a
residency at the Bellagio, Italy Conference
Center in 1999. During spring 2001,
she was Vanderbilt University’s Gertrude
and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer
in Residence. Judith Ortiz Cofer is the
Franklin Professor of English.
For more information please contact
Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera
at 216.523.7168 or
[email protected].
This program is sponsored by Cultural Crossing at Cleveland State University and Institutional Diversity.