Zorrilla Grass Crónica

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Suzanne Chávez-Silverman

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"Zorrilla Grass Crónica" is to be included in Susana Chávez-Silverman's second volume of crónicas, tentatively titled Letters to los Musos.

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Suzanne Chávez-Silverman, Pomona College, USA

Susana Chávez-Silverman grew up bilingually and biculturally between Los Angeles, Madrid and Guadalajara, México, the daughter of a Jewish Hispanist and a Chicana teacher. After a peripatetic university and post-graduate career, and years spent living in Boston, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Spain and South Africa, she is currently associate professor of Spanish, Latino/a and Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She specializes in gender and sexuality studies, autobiography/memoir, Latin American and U.S. Latino/a literature, poetry, and feminist pedagogy. She has published numerous essays on these topics and co-edited the books Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (1997) with Frances R. Aparicio, and Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American and Spanish Culture (2000) with Librada Hernández. She is also the author of Killer Cronicas (2004).