For me, writing has always meant a certain, daily, disciplined solitude. I get up, make an espresso, avoid the computer/phone/newspaper/child/wife, and head straight to my
Author: Marcos McPeek Villatoro
I am a Double-American, Salvadoran from my mother, Appalachian Tennessee, Dad. I teach Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles, am the author of six novels, a couple collections of poetry, and a memoir. I write on poetry, fiction, race issues, the Latino-American world, mental health and childhood trauma. Somehow it all mixes together in a fairly interesting soup.
For My Students
I’ve opened this blog for my students, and am starting in the fall semester of 2017, when I am teaching two classes at Mount St.
A Part of Appalachia Dies
My father was born a sharecropper, lived most his years as an auto mechanic, and retired from the coal mines of Kentucky. Sharecropping meant