Acclaim for ANEL I. FLORES’
Empanada
“Flores daringly strips bare the societal, family, and self-imposed cover up of what is real and vulnerable, what is dangerous and taboo, what is scary and seductive in her life.” - Sara E. Cooper, Associate Professor , California State University, Chico
“The narrator’s keen sense of smell quickly twists your stomach in a knot and you realize there’s a lot at stake here.” - Lyle Rosdahl, Columnist and Editor, The Current
“Empanada is a poetic feast of memory, mordidas of sweet and bitter remembrance. ¡Provecho!” - Erasmo Guerra, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Between Dances and Once More to the River: Family Snapshots of Growing Up, Getting Out and Going Back
“An exploration of a young, Mexican-American woman’s world, a world divided and united by the categories of food, sex, and religion. It is a work that sings itself into being.” - Elena Georgiou, author of Mercy, Mercy, Me
and Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants
“A blend of poetry and prose about living as a Latina lesbian, boasts graceful writing and vivid imagery.”
- Deborah Martin, Journalist, San Antonio Express-News
