Nationality American Name Viola Canales | Role Writer | |
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Born April 21, 1957 (age 67) ( 1957-04-21 ) Awards Pura Belpre Award for Writing Books The Tequila Worm, Orange candy slices an, The Little Devil and the Rose | ||
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Viola Canales (born 21 April 1957) is an American writer originally from McAllen, Texas. She has published a short story collection, Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales (2001), and a novel, The Tequila Worm (2005) for which she won the Pura Belpré Award in 2006. She has also written a bilingual collection of poems, The Little Devil and the Rose: Lotería Poems / El diablito y la rosa: Poemas de la lotería (2014).
Contents
- Viola canales visits psja isd
- A culture viewed through its stories rituals and foods writing and translating The Tequila Worm
- Education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
"A culture viewed through its stories, rituals and foods: writing and translating "The Tequila Worm"
Education
Canales attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School.
Career
She has been a captain in the US Army, a litigator, and an official in the Clinton Administration. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses that combine law and fiction writing.
Personal life
Her partner is U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Pamela Karlan.