Alicia Gaspar de Alba receives AWP Achievement Award
Gaspar de Alba is honored, along with "Lalo" Delgado, at the Con Tinta Celebration during the 2010 Annual Conference and Book Fair in Denver, Colorado
Each year, The Association of Writers and Writing Progams (AWP) holds its Annual Conference to celebrate the outstanding authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and small press publishers. The Annual Conference typically features 350 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 8,000 attendees and more than 500 publishers. It’s one of the biggest and liveliest literary gatherings in North America.
The Con Tinta celebration is the annual pachanga for the Chicano / Latino literary community and its allies.
Events at the celebration will feature special recognition of the previous year's literature, a 
presentation of Achievement Awards, and short readings and tributes by members of the writing community.
Members of the Chicano/Latino writing community will be present at the AWP Conference, including Sandra Cisneros, Reyna Grande, Daniel Olivas, Stella Pope Duarte, and many more. For a schedule of events, click here.
About Alicia Gaspar de Alba:
Alicia Gaspar de Alba is the author of various works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, among them a collection of poems and essays, La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas (Arte Público Press, 2003), and a historical novel, Sor Juana’s Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999). She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003). Her latest work is the award-winning novel Dessert Blood: The Juárez Murders, which was translated into Spanish as Sangre en el desierto: Las muertas de Juárez by Arte Público Press in 2008. An associate professor of Chicana/o Studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gaspar de Alba is a native of the El Paso / Juárez border. She has been researching the crimes since 1998 and organized an international conference on the murders at UCLA in 2003.
