MACONDO
A HOMELAND FOR WRITERS
MACONDO BOARD
Macondo board members are made up of experienced Macondista volunteers. They constitute a working board. Members serve a minimum of two years, and may serve for a third year of additional service. During their tenure, board members do not attend workshops or participate in workshop activities, but focus on serving and leading the organization. The board normally meets weekly to discuss and plan the annual Macondo Writers Workshop.
Pat Alderete (Applications Administrator, Ex-Officio Board member) is a motorcycle riding butch who was born and raised in East Los Angeles. She writes about the beauty and brutality of varrio life, rendering the complex inner worlds and strict social hierarchies of a community too seldom observed in literature.
Norma Elia Cantú: Former American Folklore Society President, award winning poet and author, Dr. Norma Elia Cantú currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she teaches courses in Latinx Studies, Folklore, and Creative Writing. Her scholarly and creative writing focuses on the US-Mexico Border and includes her novels Canícula and Cabañuelas as well as a poetry collection, Meditación fronteriza. She recently published Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers and Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines, Quinceañeras and George Washington’s Birthday.
María-Luisa Ornelas-June was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. After a short practice, she followed her spouse to postings in the Netherlands, Singapore, and India. In Singapore, she taught legal research and writing to first year law students at the National University of Singapore. María-Luisa now resides in Houston, Texas.
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María-Luisa is an independent scholar focused on the folklore of Tejano culture, a self-described Tejanista. She is currently working on a book. Her previous works have appeared or are forthcoming in Chamisa: A Journal of Visual, Literary and Performance Arts of the Southwest, Barrelhouse, and in an anthology, ¡Somos Tejanas! She is a Macondista and a 2023 Texas Folklife Fellow. Her hobbies include both dancing and singing flamenco.
Miguel Angel Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Gallaudet University. Their work has been featured in publications like Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and the Black Warrior Review. Currently, they divide their time between Washington, D.C., and El Paso, Texas.
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