Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word artist, visual artist, and writer from Santa Maria, California. She currently lives and teaches in Long Beach, California.[1] Her most recent novel, Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories, explores Mexican stories and traditions from a feminist lens.[2]

Career

She has toured with Sister Spit,[3] a "lesbian-feminist spoken-word and performance art collective."[4] She has also exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art[5] in Long Beach, CA.

Awards

Her debut novel Dahlia Season won The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from Publishing Triangle, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.[6][7] Dazed Digital ranked Dahlia Season among their list of queer lit classics.[8] Emily Gould described Gurba as "a new writer for the first time whose voice is different from any you’ve heard before and who you want to keep hearing forever."[9]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "For Mexican Girls Who Paint Their Fingernails Black". KQED Arts. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ "2015 Latino Books: 8 Must-Reads from Indispensable Small Presses". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. ↑ "Long Beach authors to share their humor, discomfort at Sister Spit tour". www.presstelegram.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Sister Spit". Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  5. ↑ "Graduate Studies: Home » Blog Archive » Who Are You? exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art". www.art.csulb.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  6. ↑ "Publishing Triangle". www.publishingtriangle.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  7. ↑ "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  8. ↑ Dazed. "Come out with the best characters in queer lit". Dazed. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  9. ↑ "The Millions : A Year in Reading: Emily Gould". www.themillions.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.


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