APS Hispanic Book Fair and Author Signing

APS Hispanic Book Fair & Author Signing

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APS Hispanic Heritage Month Events

Events Schedule / Horario de Eventos September 23 Friday /Viernes Council Chambers/Cámaras del Consejo 12:00-1:00 Ricardo Lucero—¡bilingüe! 1:00-1:30 Book signing/Autógrafos 2:00-3:00 Jimmy Santiago Baca—¡bilingüe! 3:00-3:45 Book signing/Autógrafos 4:00-5:00 Eduardo B. Hernandez—¡bilingüe! 5-5:30 Book signing/Autógrafos September 24 Saturday/Sábado Outside/Afuera 12:00-1 Roping Reynosos—¡bilingüe! Council Chambers/Cámaras del Consejo: 1:00-2:00 Stella Pope Duarte—¡bilingüe! 2:00-3:00 Carmen Martinez—¡bilingüe! 3:00-4:00 Kathy Cano Murillo 4:00-5:00 Margarita Cota-Cárdenas—¡bilingüe! 5:00-6:00 Carl Hayden Robotics Team/Club de Robótica—¡bilingüe!
		Visit these vendor booths! Alliance Book Company Borders Books El Rancho Market Hispanic Institute for Social Issues Iguana Revista Para Niños Kingmaker Books University of Arizona Press
Ricardo Lucero is a native of Globe and the author of Conversation with Myself. “Flip through pages of prose and your imagination is winding along the streets of Globe” (The Arizona Republic). In Conversations with Myself, he recollects what will constitute a valuable historical record of this city. Lucero’s writings are a diverse array of literary genres infused with a deep feeling of love for a city and its people. With an accurate narrative, the author’s description is a living, precious history.

Jimmy Santiago Baca —Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and was later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious International Award. Hear him read from his books and talk about his fascinating life.

Eduardo B. Hernández—Mexican writer, native of the border with the U.S. He currently resides in Apache Junction. He founded and directed the student newspaper The 4th Power in Mexico City. He worked in many mediums as a graphic reporter. He is the author of Los Zapatos del Inmigrante and other writings. He is currently the director of the Hispanic Institute for Social Issues and publishes the bilingual magazine Barriozona.

The Roping Reynosos, famous trick roping family, will perform roping stunts in front of the library. They are the subject of the children’s book Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope and have traveled and performed on television programs such as Sesame Street.

Stella Pope Duarte was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship in 1998 from the Arizona Arts Commission for her first book, Fragile Night, a collection of short stories. She was recently awarded a second fellowship for Let Their Spirits Dance. A Pushcart Prize in Literature Finalist, she is also a university instructor and high school counselor. Ms. Pope Duarte lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She will do a reading and talk for families.

Carmen M. Martínez Roldán is a Puerto Rican educator and researcher on faculty at ASU, specializing in language, biliteracy and diversity studies. During this program for parents (children welcome), she will read a bilingual children’s book and discuss the value of reading and storytelling as good literacy practices.

Kathy Cano-Murillo has been the object of feature stories in major publications. In addition to painting, glittering and marketing her work, Kathy also works full time as a nationally syndicated arts and crafts columnist and as an arts and entertainment reporter for the The Arizona Republic. She appears on Good Morning Arizona KPNX-TVand Sonoran Living KNXV-TV regularly. She won an award from The New York Public Library for the book "The Crafty Diva's DIY Style Book. It was chosen as "One of the best books for teens of 2004". She will read her story in the new Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul and Art de la Soul.

Margarita Cota-Cárdenas is the author of Puppet, which also features the characters Petra Levya and Marchitas de Mayo. She is Professor Emerita of Spanish at Arizona State University. She will be reading from her latest novel, Sanctuaries of the Heart / Santuarios del Corazón: A novella in English and Spanish.

Carl Hayden High School Robotics Team —This now famous group of high school kids from Phoenix beat out the nation's brightest students (including a team from M.I.T) in the 2004 Marine Advanced Technology Education Center Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition with their underwater robot named Stinky. Meet this famous group of hispanic students tuat have been interviewed by Wired Magazine, the television program Nightline, and Reader’s Digest.