'I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--...

Fifteen year old Doris is the daughter of saleros, a father who is a musician with his own band ...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of...

A community transplanted from what they now view as an island paradise, these Puerto Rican famili...

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, 'The Line of the Sun' moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a to...

Teenaged Mary Ellen -- known to her parents as Maria Elenita -- is pulling away from their conser...

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of...

Lessons from a Writer's Life

How do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make...

Riding Low on the Streets of Gold collects Latino stories.

Recipient of The New York Public Library's 1991 Best Book for the Teen Age, a PEN citation, Marth...

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of...