Dominican University presents author Ana Castillo

Dominican University will
present prolific and provocative writer Ana Castillo in a reading and
discussion on Thursday, October 10 at 7 p.m. in the Martin Recital Hall, 7900
W. Division Street, River Forest.

A pioneering feminist
writer, Castillo is considered one of the leading voices of the Chicana
experience. She is the author and editor of numerous novels, nonfiction books,
short stories, poems and essays, much of which center on issues of identity,
racism and classicism. Born in Chicago, she was nominated in 1999 as one of the
greatest Chicagoans of the century by the Chicago Sun-Times. She is the
recipient of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship.

Castillo’s novels include The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), So Far from God (1993), Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999) and,
most recently, The Guardians (2007).
She has also written the nonfiction book Massacre

of the Dreamers (1994) and poetry collections including My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems (1994).

This program is free. For
more information, please contact Jane Hseu at jhseu@dom.edu or (708) 524-6584.