Leticia Hernandez-Linares And Tomas Riley September 22, 2007

Leticia Hernandez-Linares, a Salvadoran sister originally from Los Angeles, is a published writer, educator and youth activist, and spent several years in Philly in the mid-late 90's as a doctoral student in UPENN's English Literature program. She received the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996, and her writing has appeared in various literary journals, newspapers, and anthologies--the latest of which include, Latino Literature Today and Telling Tongues. In 2002, Calaca Press published her poetry chapbook, Razor Edges of My Tongue.

Tomás Riley is a poet, writer, educator and a veteran of the Chicano spoken word collective The Taco Shop Poets. He was a finalist for the 2004 California Voices Award from Poets & Writers Magazine, and his first book Mahcic (named after his and Leticia's son) debuted on Calaca Press in December 2005. He currently mentors teen writers in the Mission District of San Francisco.

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