Las Criaturas - Urieta, Leticia

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Résumé :
Las Criaturas is a hybrid collection that blends poetic and speculative narrative forms to tell stories of untold women. The poems and short stories play with traditional storytelling forms and tales to ruminate on the monstrous, unruly, vulnerable, strength and beauty in the feminine and seek to reclaim people's power in powerless situations. The book is broken into three sections to show the multifaceted nature of the word criatura. In the story, The Monster a child in a migrant detention center is haunted by a monster made of her own fear. In La Mujer Alacran, a woman who is sexually assaulted transforms into a literal scorpion woman in order to protect herself. In The Inbetween Mother, a daughter attempts to reunite her selkie mother with her true form.

Biographie:
Leticia Urieta is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and a freelance writer. She is the Regional Program Manager for Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit that provides free creative writing opportunities to students 7-18 years old and is also the Program Director for Barrio Writers in Austin and Pflugerville, a free college level youth writers workshop founded by author and activist Sarah Rafael Garcia in Santa Ana, CA. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and earned an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cleaver, Chicon Street Poets, Lumina, The Offing, Kweli Journal, Medium, Electric Lit and others. Her chapbook, The Monster is out now from LibroMobile Press and her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas that explores the monstrous and beautiful feminine is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. She is currently at work completing her novel that tells the story of a Mexican soldadera caught up in the march to Texas during Texas' war with Mexico.

Sommaire:
Las Criaturas is a hybrid collection that blends poetic and speculative narrative forms to tell stories of untold women. The poems and short stories play with traditional storytelling forms and tales to ruminate on the monstrous, unruly, vulnerable, strength and beauty in the feminine and seek to reclaim people's power in powerless situations. The book is broken into three sections to show the multifaceted nature of the word criatura. In the story, The Monster a child in a migrant detention center is haunted by a monster made of her own fear. In La Mujer Alacran, a woman who is sexually assaulted transforms into a literal scorpion woman in order to protect herself. In The Inbetween Mother, a daughter attempts to reunite her selkie mother with her true form. ...