Demetria Martinez
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Born | July 10, 1960 |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (BA) |
Demetria Martinez (born July 10, 1960) is an American activist, poet, and novelist.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]She was born on July 10, 1960, where she was raised by her grandmother in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Princeton University with BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[1]
In 1988, Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the United States;[3] she was working as a freelance reporter covering religion and the Sanctuary Movement at the time.[4] She was later acquitted of the charges.[3][5] During the trial, prosecutors used Martinez's poem "Nativity, For Two Salvadoran Women" in an attempt to build a case against her, a decision Martinez has called a "major error."[6]
Career
[edit]Martinez worked as a religion reporter for the Albuquerque Journal in August 1986.[7]
She has been an editor for the National Catholic Review in Tucson, Arizona, since 1990,[1] and teaches in the annual William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[citation needed]
Activism
[edit]Martinez has been associated with the Sanctuary Movement and with Enlace Comunitario, an Albuquerque-based organization that serves immigrant families experiencing domestic violence.[8]
Awards
[edit]- International Latino Book Award for best biography (2006): Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (University of Oklahoma Press,[9] 2005) [3]
- Western States Book Award for fiction: Mother Tongue (Ballintine, 1994) [1][3] [10]
- Thirteenth Annual Chicano Literary Arts Contest (first prize: poem[11]): "Turning" (Bilingual Press Review, 1989)
- American Book Award (2013)[12]
Published works
[edit]- Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry (includes the poem "Turning"), Bilingual Press/Review (Tempe, AZ), 1989 ISBN 978-0916950910
- MotherTongue, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue (Tempe, AZ), 1994, translated into Spanish by Ana Maria de la Fuente and published as Lengua madre, Seix Barral (Barcelona, Spain), 1996 ISBN 978-0345416568
- Breathing between the Lines: Poems, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1997 ISBN 978-0816517985
- The Devil's Workshop, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 2002 ISBN 978-0816521975
- Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN 978-0806137223
- The Block Captain's Daughter (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN 978-0806142913
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale. 1993.
- ^ a b c d Ndegeocello, Me'Shell (2009). "World Literature Today". The poet as political activist: a conversation with Demetria Martinez. Retrieved December 21, 2015 – via Biography in Context.
- ^ Levin, Jennifer (July 8, 2016). "The personal is political: readings around town". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "New York Times". 2 Are Acquitted In Entry to U.S. By Illegal Aliens. 1998. Retrieved December 21, 2015 – via Biography in Context.
- ^ Rice, Dan (March 23, 2002). "Poem freed 'Sanctuary Movement' writer". Arizona Daily Sun. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "Martínez, Demetria | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ "Demetria Martínez". Lannan Foundation.
- ^ "Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Books by Demetria Martinez and Complete Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ Telgen, Diane (1993). Notable Hispanic American Women, Volume 1. Cengage Gale. pp. https://books.google.com/books?id=dCWqXOE5lmgC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=%22chicano+literary+arts+contest%22&source=bl&ots=EQbXtkBYRB&sig=fbQjXR-8G1LEuLiyjVoe2e9be7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc7M7h7uDdAhVk6YMKHQ_lBdEQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22chicano%20literary%20arts%20contest%22&f=false. ISBN 9780810375789.
- ^ "Demetria Martinez, Author, Activist and Creativity Coach". www.demetriamartinez.com. Retrieved 24 November 2018.