--From Lisa D. Chavez's Introduction to "Malinche's Daughter"
Michelle Otero was raised along the U.S.-Mexico border in Deming, New Mexico.
As a Fulbright Fellow, she taught creative writing workshops for women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is a founding member of The Women Writers? Collective. A committed anti-violence activist, she volunteers with Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez, and performs with Las Meganenas, an Albuquerque-based group that uses theatre to raise awareness and money to prevent violence against women..
She is the recipient of an Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Award and has attended residencies at Hedgebrook and Macondo. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Upstreet, Artful Dodge, Border Senses, and other journals in the U.S. and Mexico.
A graduate of Harvard University and Vermont College, she lives in Albuquerque, and is working on Vessels, a memoir of borders.
Readings, Workshops, Events
Updated February 11, 2008
February 12, 2008
Second printing of Malinche's Daughter available for purchase!!
February 27 - 29, 2008
El Paso Community College
March 15
Self-Portraits, A Writing and Photography Workshop with Soledad Hindi
Women in Creativity
National Hispanic Cultural Center
March 20, 7:00 PM
The Vagina Monologues/Los Monologos de la Vagina, performed by Las Meganenas and Friends
proceeds to benefit Enlace Comunitario
South Broadway Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM
June 2008
In residency at The Anderson Center
