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Sheila Ortiz Taylor was born on September 25, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, where she was raised by her mother, aunts, and grandma along with her sister, Sandra Ortiz Taylor. [2] Her parents were Jack Santay Ortiz, a Texan man of Irish and Mexican descent, and Juanita Loretta Ortiz Taylor, who was of Mexican descent. [3]
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Sheila Ortiz Taylor (b. 1939), originally from Los Angeles, California, has authored two novels: Faultline, 1982, and Spring Forward/ Fall Back, 1985, plus a poetry collection, Slow Dancing at Miss Polly's, 1989, all three released by The Naiad Press, a prestigious lesbian publisher. Her work has achieved international success, with Faultline ...
Quick Reference. (b. 1939), writer. Sheila Ortiz Taylor was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1939, of Mexican American ancestry. A poet, novelist, and literary critic, she is a professor of literature ... From: Taylor, Sheila Ortiz in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States ». Subjects: History — Regional and ...
The novel unfolds with her explorations into the connections among these deaths, but it also explores Yolanda’s relationship with a gay couple, one of whose members has AIDS, the growing romantic relationship between her and Marina Lomas (who has run away from an abusive husband with her small daughter), her relationship with her father, Crescienco.
Jan 1, 2001 · Sheila Ortiz Taylor. It's 1983 in Coachella Valley and Yolanda Ramirez, a lowly phlebotomist at the Palm Springs hospital, has a hunch. Gay men, hemophiliacs, and women scarred by cosmetic surgery are dying. Safe blood, like the water keeping this desert green, is a lie. In the nearby trailer, Isabel Ochoa Dreyfus disappears into a new identity ...
Sheila Ortiz-Taylor is a critically acclaimed Chicana novelist, poet and lecturer, and winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award (1997). Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Ortiz-Taylor began writing poetry and plays as early as junior high school.
