Judith Ortiz Cofer
Author of An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
About the Author
Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico in 1952. She was a Franklin Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia from 1984 until she retired in 2013. She was also a poet and author. Her collections of poetry include Terms of Survival, Reaching for the Mainland, and A show more Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems. Her novels include Call Me Maria, The Meaning of Consuelo, and The Line of the Sun. She won an O. Henry Prize for the story A Latin Deli, which appeared in The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. Her other books include Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, If I Could Fly, and Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer. She died from cancer on December 30, 2016 at the age of 64. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Silent Dancing {essay} 1 copy
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contributor, some editions — 517 copies
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contributor — 377 copies, 2 reviews
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contributor — 108 copies
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 70 copies, 15 reviews
Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry (1995) — Contributor — 54 copies, 1 review
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 49 copies
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contributor — 40 copies
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Contributor — 26 copies
Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (2013) — Contributor — 19 copies
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (2008) — Contributor — 12 copies
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (LOA #382) (Library of America, 382) (2024) — Contributor — 4 copies
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