Luz Schweig

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Luz Schweig (she/ella) is a Xicana poet raised in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, whose work participates in reviving Indigenous eco-spirituality. Her contributions have mainly focused on anthologizing marginalized voices, especially those of women. In 2012, Luz founded a women’s spiritual poetry project through which hundreds of contributors shared their stories. Her sixth anthology, Somos Xicanas, sparked a revival of published work by Mexican American women and was recipient of the 2025 ILBA Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book and Best Women’s Issues Book Awards. Penned under a pseudonym, Luz’s first poetry manuscript was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as a runner-up for the 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and will be released in ...more

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Written in the Body by Elisa A Garza
"I feel the indomitable spirit of Elisa Garza in this book.

She lived fully, elucidating her cancer experience wholeheartedly with poems like “Radiation Bestiary,” “Directions,” and lines like “Violet vibrates
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"One of the best picture story books I have read in years! The story was wonderful; it centered around a young boy whose fib grew and grew. The storyline was highly entertaining and came to a satisfying resolution. The illustrations were gorgeous. I l" Read more of this review »
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Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

“Same for the classic SF novels I grew up reading; Latinos weren't being written about, either. Did we die out in those futures? Did we not make it? Were we purposefully excluded?

Sometimes, we must write ourselves into the futures we want before we're left out of them by someone else.”
Pedro Íñiguez, Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

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