Melani “Mele” Martinez comes to the festival with "The Molino," a hybrid memoir of poems, essays and remembrances about her family's downtown Tucson tamaleria: El Rapido. It had been open 67 years before closing in 2000. Martinez is a senior lecturer at the University of Arizona, where she teaches writing courses. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Bacopa Literary Review, BorderLore, Bearings Online Journal, Telling Tongues: A Latin Anthology on Language Experiences, and Contemporary Chicanx Writers Anthology.
Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, Hispanic or Latinx
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