Naomi Quiñonez
biography
Quiñonez received her Ph.D. in History and American Studies from the Claremont Graduate University. She currently teaches at San Francisco State University in the areas of Chicana/Latina and Latino gender studies and U.S. Mexico border relations. Quiñonez has taught and lectured at colleges an universities throughout the U.S. including West Virginia Graduate University, Arizona State University, UC Irvine, UC. Riverside, UC Santa Cruz and Cal State Fullerton, among others.
Quiñonez is an advocate for social justice, cultural expression, community participation and women’s issues. She is frequently a guest speaker in programs and conferences related to race, ethnicity, culture and gender. She was a guest speaker for the Latina Reproductive Rights Organization in Tampa, Florida; spoke on Women and Violence in Boulder, Colorado and represented Chicana authors at the Latin American Women’s Conference in Madrid. Quiñonez is often an invited poet and speaker to venues such as the Los Angeles Theater Center, the Los Angeles Museum of Contempoary Art, the Miami Book Festival and the San Antonio book Fair. She has been a featured writer at the La Jolla Artists On the Cutting Edge Writers Series, the Nuyorican Café and the Los Angeles Latino book Festival.
Her poetry and articles have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including From Totems to Hip Hop, Chicana Creativity and Criticism, Infinite Divisions, The Colorado Review, Masacaras, Women of Color Pray, Aztlan and Vietnam and the Southern California Anthology. Quiñonez is the recipient of a Rockefeller Research Fellowship, the American Book Award, the California Arts Council Award and the National Endowment of the Arts Award.
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