Chicana Author Sandra Cisneros to Recieve First Gloria E. Anzaldua Distinguished Lecture Award

“The Chicana/o Latina/o Research Center at UC Santa Cruz (CLRC) is pleased to announce its first annual Gloria E. AnzaldÚa Distinguished Lecture Award Ceremony. Noted Chicana author and MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient Sandra Cisneros will accept the award and read from her work at 5pm on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at Watsonville’s Mello Center for the Performing Arts.

The CLRC has established the Distinguished Lecture Award in Gloria Evangelina AnzaldÚa’s name to honor her extensive creative work in Chicano/a and feminist issues. AnzaldÚa, a public intellectual and creative writer, passed away at her home in Santa Cruz in May of 2004. Gloria AnzaldÚa is considered one of the boldest feminist thinkers and social justice activists of our time. AnzaldÚa wrote the landmark Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Consciousness (Spinters/Aunt Lute 1989), named one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by Hungry Mind Review and Utne Reader. She published essays, poetry, short stories, interviews, anthologies and children’s books. “

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