Guadalupe Garcia McCall is an author, poet, and educator. She was born in

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. She is the recipient of the 2012 Pura Belpré Medal for narrative.

Early life

Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Coauhila, a Mexican state adjacent to Texas. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was six years old, and grew up in Eagle Pass, a small border town in South Texas. When McCall was 17 years old, “she lost her mother to cancer and found solace in her writing and in her education".

Career

She holds a B.A. in Theatre and English from

Sul Ross State University Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public university in Alpine, Texas. The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend region of far West Texas. Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande Colleg ...

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and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. McCall currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at

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in Newberg, Oregon. Her first novel, ''Under the Mesquite,'' debuted in October 2011 and received the prestigious Pura Belpré Medal for narrative in 2012. She has written three more young adult novels in addition to many stories and poems that have been published in periodicals. Garcia McCall has been called "a leading voice in Chicana and Latina children’s and young adult literature".

Awards

''Under the Mesquite''

2012 Pura Belpré Medal for narrative 2013 Tomás Rivera Book Award 2012 Americas Award, Consortium of Latin American Studies Program – Honorable Mention 2012 International Latino Book Award – Honorable Mention

''Summer of the Mariposas''

2013 Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award – Winner 2013

Andre Norton Award The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (formerly the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy) is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to the ...

for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Finalist 2013

Amelia Bloomer Project Amelia may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Amélia'' (film), a 2000 Brazilian film directed by Ana Carolina * ''Amelia'' (film), a 2009 film based on the life of Amelia Earhart Literature * ''Amelia (magazine)'', a Swedish w ...

List

Bibliography

*''Under the Mesquite'',

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(New York) 2011. *''Summer of Mariposas'', Tu Books (New York) 2012. *''Shame the Stars,'' Tu Books (New York) 2016. *''All the Stars Denied'' Tu Books (New York) 2018.

References

External links

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