Deborah Paredez is the author of the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke University Press, 2009) and of the poetry volumes Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020) and This Side of Skin (Wings Press, 2002). She is currently at work on a book of essays, “American Diva,” that chronicles the impact of divas on her life and on American culture more broadly during the past fifty years. She is a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University and co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latinx poets.
