Writer Tony Diaz to speak at Hispanic Heritage celebration

Writer
Tony Diaz to speak at Hispanic Heritage celebration
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BY DAVID MEDINA
Special to the Rice News

In honor of
the Hispanic Heritage celebration, fiction writer Tony Diaz,
a Rice creative writing teacher, will give a lecture on
“From Sun Stone to Palm Pilot: A Brief History of Mexican-American
Time,” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Grand Hall
of the Rice Memorial Center.

Diaz is the
author of “The Aztec Love God,” which won the
1998 Nilon Award for excellence in minority writing. He
also is the founder of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having
Their Say, which serves as a forum to showcase Latino writers
from all across the nation.

Diaz has written
three plays, among them “Mi Mama Versus Superman,”
and a number of essays and stories that have been printed
in such publications as the Los Angeles Times and the Houston
Chronicle. He also edited the Latino Herectis: An Anthology
of Radical Writing.

He graduated
from De Paul University in 1990 and received a master’s
of fine arts degree from the University of Houston’s
Creative Writing Program in 1994.

The Office of
the President is sponsoring the lecture. Food, drinks and
mariachi music will follow the presentation.

— David
Medina is senior editor of the Sallyport and the minority
community affairs director.