So Moved and Proud

Gentle Readers, good news!  More magazine has just published this moving piece by the wonderful journalist Beatriz Terrazas.  It's about making peace with wrenching childhood trauma and with the imperfect, inadequate actions of the adults most responsible for protecting us.

It was my privilege to meet Beatriz when she took a memoir-writing workshop with Lorraine López and me at Macondo in 2008.  Our week together was so intense and sparked so much good work.  I loved getting to know Beatriz there in San Antonio and have since taught one of her other essays in the Chicana/Chicano lit classroom.

I love the bravery and strength of this new memoir piece and am so glad that More is sharing it with a broad readership.  Congratulations, Beatriz!