"From Rhyme to Crime:" Sarah Cortez and Lucha Corpi at Houston Public Library

The Houston Public Library hosts authors Sarah Cortez and Lucha Corpi on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. as part of their "An Evening with..." series. Both authors will discuss the intersections of writing crime fiction with their successful careers as poets. The event will take place at the Central Branch (500 McKinney Ave., Houston, TX 77002).

This event is free and open to the public.

SARAH CORTEZ is a poet, educator, and law enforcement officer. She is the author of a poetry collection, How to Undress a Cop (Arte Público Press, 2000), which won the PEN Texas Literary Award in Poetry. She also edited Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives (Piñata Books, 2007), winner of a 2008 Skipping Stones Honor Award. Her most recent work is Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2009). She lives and works in Houston, Texas.

LUCHA CORPI, a poet, novelist, and children's book author, is the recepient of numerous accolades for her work, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize in fiction. Her most recent work is Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2009). She has written three other mystery novels featuring her protagonist Gloria Damasco: Black Widow's Wardrobe (Arte Público Press, 1999), Cactus Blood (Arte Público Press, 2009), and and Eulogy for a Brown Angel (Arte Público Press, 1992). Corpi taught for more than 30 years in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program, and she continues to live and work in Oakland, California.

For more information on Hispanic culture and arts, visit our home page.