Demetria Martinez

Demetria Martinez is the author of the widely translated novel Mother Tongue , which won a Western States Book Award for Fiction. Martinez also wrote The Block Captain's Daughter , which won an American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award for best Latino Focused Fiction. She co-authored an ebook with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, These People Want to Work: Immigration Reform . Her collection of autobiographical essays, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana , includes...See more

Demetria Martinez is the author of the widely translated novel Mother Tongue , which won a Western States Book Award for Fiction. Martinez also wrote The Block Captain's Daughter , which won an American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award for best Latino Focused Fiction. She co-authored an ebook with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, These People Want to Work: Immigration Reform . Her collection of autobiographical essays, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana , includes columns that originally appeared in the National Catholic Reporter . In addition to writing, she is also an activist, creativity coach, and journalist based in New Mexico. See less