词条 | Sarah Cortez |
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}}{{Infobox writer | name = Sarah Cortez | image = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = poet | language = | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = United States | education = B.A. Psychology and Religion, M.A. Classical Studies, M.S. Accountancy | alma_mater = Rice University, University of Texas in Austin, University of Houston-Central | period = | genres = Poetry | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = 1999–present | module = | website = www.poetacortez.com | portaldisp = y }}Sarah Cortez is an award-winning Latina poet, teacher, editor, and essayist from Houston, Texas. She is also a law enforcement officer who first gained acclaim for her poetry collection, How to Undress a Cop.[1] Early life and careerA fifth-generation Texan and native Houstonian, she graduated from St. Agnes Academy in high school, and then attended Rice University majoring in Psychology and Religion. Her first graduate degree was in Classical Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. She began her career by teaching high school in Houston, TX, then completing an M.S. in Accountancy from the University of Houston-Central, Houston, TX. An overwhelming interest in civic organizations and neighborhood safety brought her a series of volunteer positions with Neartown Association, ultimately resulting in citywide appointments to commissions and boards. This civic participation spawned another burning interest: law enforcement. She enrolled in the police academy at the University of Houston-Downtown’s Criminal Justice Center. Upon graduation, she began working as a law enforcement officer in Harris County, TX. She remained an active-duty patrol police officer until 1999, when she began working as a reserve officer, so she could devote more attention to her writing and editing careers. She remains a reserve officer in Harris County. Career as a writer and editorIn 1999, her poems won the PEN Texas Literary Award in Poetry. In 2000, her debut volume of poetry, How to Undress a Cop, (Arte Público Press, 2000) was published which won praise from Publishers Weekly: “By turns erotic, tender, and gritty ... Powerfully direct.”[2] During this time, she began a relationship with the University of Houston, where she served as Visiting Scholar, 1999-2001. She is the only Visiting Scholar for the Center for Mexican Studies who has been awarded two consecutive one-year appointments. There she began her work with young people fearful of writing. This experience evolved into her first anthology, Urban Speak: Poetry of the City,[3] which contains poems by her students. Her work on anthologies of poems, memoir, and short stories honed her skills as a trusted and prize-winning editor, producer, and public speaker. Since Urban Speak: Poetry of the City, she has conceptualized and edited seven original anthologies. Today, she is in demand as an editor for all subgenres of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2012, her spiritual memoir, Walking Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston (Texas Review Press, 2012) was published. She drew on the stories overheard as a child from her parents, grandparents, and other family members. The book also highlights a deep faith centered in the Catholic religion. Partnered in the book are poems and short prose sections recalling her childhood and adolescence. This book received Honorable Mentions in the Los Angeles Book Festival Awards and the Great Southwest Book Festival. Cold Blue Steel (Texas Review Press, 2013) is a collection of poems reflecting on law enforcement thirteen years after How to Undress a Cop. She “employs frank language in sharp lyrics charged with weary passion”, says Diego Báez in Booklist.[4] According to reviewer Jeffrey C. Alfier in Rattle: “Cortez’s lines were formed in the cauldron of an American Realist tradition: hard truths told with sharp fidelity by a large city beat cop.”[5] This book, according to reviewer Paul David Adkins says: “Ms. Cortez explores what it means to be female in the traditionally man’s world of law enforcement, governed by violence, cynicism, and despair.”[6] One of the poems in this book won an honorable mention in Rattle’s annual contest in 2011, and the book placed finalist in the 2014 Writers League of Texas Poetry Awards and the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award in Poetry. Her essays, poems, short essays, and book chapters have been published worldwide. They have been short-listed for honors, such as the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Her poetry has been part of the Poetry In Motion program of the Poetry Society of American, and has been delivered and displayed at the United Nations in New York City as part of the Eighth Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. WorksWindows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives (Arte Público Press, 2007)
Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2009)
Indian Country Noir (Akashic Noir Series, 2009)
You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens (Piñata Books, 2011)
Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence (Arte Público Press, 2013)
Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance (Texas Review Press, 2015)
Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials (Texas Review Press, 2016)
Against the Sky's Warm Belly: New and Selected Poems (Texas Review Press, 2016)
References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Flakus|first1=Greg|title=Texas Poet Finds Inspiration in Police Work|url=http://www.voanews.com/content/texas-poet-finds-inspiration-in-police-work/1779604.html|website=Voice of America|accessdate=8 July 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cortez, Sarah}}2. ^Publishers Weekly, August 28, 2000. 3. ^Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Houston, 2002 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Báez |first1=Diego|url=http://booklistonline.com/Cold-Blue-Steel-Sarah-Cortez/pid=6081084|website="Booklist Online"|accessdate=1 July 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Alfier|first1="Jeffrey C."|title=COLD BLUE STEEL by Sarah Cortez|url=http://www.rattle.com/cold-blue-steel-by-sarah-cortez|website=Rattle|accessdate=12 July 2016}} 6. ^{{cite journal|last1=Adkins|first1=Paul David|journal=Louisiana Literature|date=2015|volume=32.2|issue=Fall/Winter}} 7. ^School Library Journal, May 1, 2007. 8. ^San Antonio Express-News, September 20, 2007. 9. ^Mystery Scene, 2009 Summer Issue, #110. 10. ^The Midwest Book Review, July 2009. 11. ^Booklist, May 1, 2011 12. ^{{cite web|title=16th Annual International Latino Book Awards: Winners|url=http://lascomadres.com/latinolit/16th-annual-international-latino-book-award-winners-2014/|website=Las Comadres para las Americas|accessdate=12 July 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web |title=Foreword Reviews reboots for consumers |url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/rebranding2014/ |publisher=Foreword Reviews |accessdate=30 October 2018}} 14. ^{{cite web |title=Foreword Book of the Year Submission Open |url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/marketing/issue/985209/ |publisher=Foreword Reviews |accessdate=30 October 2018}} 15. ^{{cite web |title=2013 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Anthologies (Adult Nonfiction) |url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/finalists/2013/anthologies/ |publisher=Foreword Reviews |accessdate=30 October 2018 |language=en}} 16. ^Southwestern American Literature, volume 41, No. 1, Fall 2015. 9 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|21st-century American poets|Poets from Texas|Writers from Houston|American women poets|Rice University alumni|University of Texas at Austin alumni|21st-century American women writers |
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