ON THE WRITINGS OF ANN ALEJANDRO – NONFICTION

MARION WINIK is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead and First Comes Love. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader. She was a commentator on All Things Considered for 15 years.

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE has written or edited more than 30 books – including her latest book, Grace Notes: Poems About Families – and has worked as a visiting writer all her life. She served as a "Young People’s" poet laureate of the United States and as the poetry editor for The New York Times Magazine and the Texas Observer. For I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas (Wittliff Collections Literary Series) (Texas A&M University Press), Nye collaborated with author and essayist Marion Winik.