June
9, 2008
Tertulia
Magazine to Present Authors’ Panel at the Latino Book & Family Festival
Tertulia Magazine (www.tertuliamagazine.com) will present a panel of best-selling, critically acclaimed writers at the Latino Book and Family Festival on August 30,
2008 at 2:00 PM at the Los Angeles Staples Center. The authors will discuss their work in the context of raising social consciousness
in the political and personal realm. Panelists include:
· Rosa Martha Villarreal – Tertulia Magazine co-founder, publisher, and contributing editor. An internationally
published essayist, she is the author of Doctor Magdalena, Chronicles of Air and Dreams, and The Stillness of Love and Exile.
· Lucha Corpi – author of Variations on a Storm and Eulogy for a Brown Angel and the recipient of numerous awards and citations, including
a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize in fiction, and the Multicultural
Publishers Exchange Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction.
· Cecile Pineda – author of The Love Queen of the Amazon, written with the assistance of a National Endowment
Fiction Fellowship and named Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times; Frieze, and Face which won the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California; the Sue
Kaufman Prize awarded by the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and the American Book Award nomination
for first fiction.
· Marķa Espinosa – novelist, poet, and translator as well as a teacher her publications include three novels:
Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew, Dark Plums, and Longing, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Recently she completed a fourth novel, Dying Unfinished, about the tangled relationship between a mother and daughter.
· Kenneth C. Burt – political director of the California Federation of Teachers. A graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Burt is a policy advocate, author, and award-winning
historian. He is the author of The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics (Regina Books).
· An H. Nguyen – co-founder of Tertulia Magazine and editor. She received her B.A. in English from the University
of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University. She practices labor and employment law at Jeffers, Mangels,
Butler & Marmon, LLP.
About Tertulia Magazine
In the late 1700s, rooms in the local theaters in Madrid
were reserved for men of letters to engage in intellectual discussions. Since most of these men were Catholic clergy, their
discussions many times revolved around the Church Father Tertullian. Thus, the tertulia was born. In 2003, Tertulia Magazine
was founded to continue the tradition of independent, non-ideological discourse through art and written word in cyberspace.
Poetry, fiction, art, and essays are published on a quarterly basis.
On the Net: www.tertuliamagazine.com; contact: Rosa Martha Villarreal, Tertulia Magazine, 916-367-1167, rvillarreal@tertuliamagazine.com
About Latino Book and Family Festival
The Latino Book & Family Festival is operated by Latino
Literacy Now, a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization that supports literary excellence, reading and education. Actor, director
and community activist, Edward James Olmos and Kirk Whisler, founding past president of the National Association of Hispanic
Publications, produce the Festival. Past sponsors include Target Stores, Nissan, Chase Bank, Telemundo, Wells Fargo, Chrysler,
Univision, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Washington Mutual, The Houston Chronicle and Continental Airlines.
On the Net: www.LBFF.us
Contact: Latino Book and Family Festival, 760-434-4484
