Angela Cervantes
Writer and Poet
"...When I was a child it was said that an evil wondering spirit called La Llorona walked down our street every night looking for children to drag to the river..."
"La Llorona"
First read on Public Radio Station KCUR
Also available in the Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
About Angela
Angela Cervantes is a writer and poet. In 2008, she was named one of Kansas City Star Magazine’s 2008 Emerging Artists and won third place for Creative Nonfiction in the 2007 Missouri Review’s audio competition for her story “House of Women.”
Her poems and short stories have appeared in The Kansas City Star and "Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul". She is also a winner of Kansas City Voices Best of Prose Award (Whispering Prairie Press) for 2007.
Past Readings
October 7, 2010 : Latino Leadership Symposium
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
October 16, 2009 : Margaritas for Mammograms
Latina Leadership Conference
Crowne Plaza, Lenexa, KS
October 7, 2009 : Latino Leadership Symposium
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
November 10, 2008: Private Reading
Highland Park H.S. Topeka, KS
April 5, 2008: Reading
Barnes and Noble, San Antonio, TX
I shared the mic with three AMAZING escritoras whose work also appears in
"Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul" .
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