The University of Arizona Press
October 10, 2023
Norma E. Cantú, editor of Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers, is the judge of the 2024 Academy of American Poets Ambroggio Prize.
The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by the University of Arizona Press. Established in 2017, it is the only annual award of its kind in the United States that honors American poets whose first language is Spanish.
The 2023 prize winner was Margarita Pintado Burgos for Ojo en Celo /Eye in Heat.
Submissions for the 2024 Ambroggio Prize will be accepted from September 15, 2023 to February 15, 2024.
Chicana Portraits is an innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities.
Norma E. Cantú is a scholar-activist who currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University. She is founder and director of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. She has published fiction, poetry, and personal essays in a number of publications.
