"The son of migrant farm workers, Juan Felipe Herrera is known for chronicling the bittersweet lives of Mexican-Americans—their challenges, travails, joys, and contributions to American culture and the American scene....Herrera’s many awards include a PEN/Beyond Margin’s Award and National Book Critics’ Circle Award for
Half of the World in Light, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Friends of Children and Literature (FOCAL) Award and Ezra Jack Keats Award for his bilingual memoir,
Calling The Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas. He is poet laureate of California."
(From the
Conference Web Site)
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists by 
