Ana Castillo
novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana poet, novelist, and essayist.[1] She writes in English. She sometimes uses Spanglish words and phrases.
She was born and raised in Chicago. She writes stories about her Mexican ancestors. When she was a nine-year-old girl, she wrote her first poems about death of her Latina grandmother.[2] Her famous books are The Invitation (1979), Women Are Not Roses (1984), and Massacre of the Dreamers (1994).[2]
She writes essays about race, sex, and gender in the United States and Mexico.[3] She also writes science fiction.[4][5]
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