Deborah Paredez is a poet, performance scholar, and cultural critic. She is the author of the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke University Press, 2009) and of the poetry volumes This Side of Skin (Wings Press, 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA, 2020), which was the recipient of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Award in Poetry. Her book of literary nonfiction, American Diva, is forthcoming from Norton. Paredez is a cofounder of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latinx poetry, and a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.
July/Aug 2022
Shore Shorn [Excerpt]
Gulf killifish is the common name for Fundulus grandis, an extensively studied fish species used in toxicological and biological investigations. The native range of the Gulf killifish includes the fresh […]