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In addition to the annual book festival, Texas Book Festival — a 501(c)(3) non-profit — organizes year-round literary programming and community outreach programs. This includes library grants to public libraries across Texas [3] and author visits with book donations to Title I schools through its Reading Rock Stars and Real Reads programs.
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Fellowship and Writer's Residency, Taos, New Mexico, summer 2012 NEA Big Read Grant, 2009-2010 [2] NEA Big Read Grant, 2008-2009 [2] Humanities Texas Grant, 2005 Humanities Texas Community Project grant, 2004 Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. Spring, 1997.
Deborah Jackson Taffa is a Native American writer who is a member of the Quechan and Laguna Pueblo tribes. She is best known for her 2024 memoir Whiskey Tender which details her life from the age of three to eighteen, growing up with a Native American father and a Catholic Latin-American mother.
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Elizabeth Crook, who received the 2023 Texas Writer Award from Texas Book Festival, has written six historical novels, including her latest, "The Madstone," set in Texas right after the Civil War.
Carrie Fountain is an American poet and writer of young adult fiction.She served as 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.. She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico.She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, [1] and received Swink Magazine's Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize.
Shapland at the 2023 Texas Book Festival. Jenn Shapland is an American writer and archivist. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a Pushcart Prize in 2017, and her memoir, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir in 2021. [1]
Cristina Rivera Garza (born October 1, 1964) [1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican author and professor best known for her fictional work, with various novels, including Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry), receiving some of Mexico’s highest literary awards as well as international honors.