Don’t get me wrong, I love psychiatry. It has given me the language to understand what happens in my mind when I am sick. Diagnosis
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.
Junot Díaz and Literary Racism
Many have heard about the writer Junot Díaz. He is, or was, in the literary world, a rock star, the Latino writer. The only Latino writer. And that’s where
Checkup at the Asylum
It’s been five months. The break from reality began the second week of December. Insomnia kicked in first. Then came the tremors. As the winters
Poet Alexandra Regalado: Life Seen Through the Bulletproof Glass
When I attended the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa, Florida in March, I sought out Latinos, because the last time I went to the
Rejection Letters
This is one of the most painful aspects of a writer’s life. If you can work through this one, you’ve crossed a great desert of
Writing From the Classroom: Alejandra Gaspar
Alejandra, known by her friends as Ally, graduated from Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, in 2016. The Dwelling Star Abandoned in connected ache,