Maria Espinosa

Maria Espinosa is a Latina novelist, poet, and translator.^[1][2]

Life

She studied at Harvard University and Columbia University, and graduated from San Francisco State University with an MA in Creative Writing. She taught at New College of California, and at City College of San Francisco.

She lived in Paris and married the Chilean writer Mario Espinosa Wellmann (died 1981); they had a daughter, Carmen. They moved to California. In 1978 she married Walter Selig, who has three children by a former marriage: Lisa, Naomi, and David.

Awards

• 1996 American Book Award

Works

Poetry

• Love Feelings, Four Winds, 1967
• Night Music, The Tides, 1969

Novels

• Longing. Cayuse Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-933529-01-4.  (reprint Arte Publico Press, 1995, ISBN 978-1-55885-145-0)
• Dark Plums. Arte Publico Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55885-128-3. 
• Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew. Wings Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-930324-79-7. 
• Dying Unfinished. Wings Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-916727-45-1. 

Translation

• George Sand (1982). Lélia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20246-8. 

Anthologies

• Roberta Fernández, ed. (1994). In other words: literature by Latinas of the United States. Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-55885-110-8. 

References

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Maria Espinosa", Red Room
• "Ample Substance: Maria Espinosa on Pamela Uschuk’s Crazy Love", Gently Read Literature