Victoria Blanco

Born and raised in El Paso and Juarez, Victoria Blanco received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guernica, Literary Hub and Catapult. "Out of the Sierra" is her first book.

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Out of the Sierra

A Story of Rarámuri Resistance
History / Biography
Coffee House Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781566896535
Paperback, 328 pages

Based on more than a decade of oral history and participatory field work, Blanco paints a vivid portrait of Raramuri displacement. When drought leaves the Gutierrez family with nothing to eat, they are forced to leave their sacred homeland behind and journey from the Sierra Madre toward a new and uncertain future in a government-funded settlement. Out of the Sierra offers a groundbreaking testimony to human resilience and the power of community. More/less