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*"The Flower in the Skull" (Chronicle Harvest Books) *"Spirits of the Ordinary" (Chronicle Harvest Books) Vargas and the Dead Naturalist" (Calyx Books) She is the winner of several awards for her writing, including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in 2007. She serves on the board of Richard Hugo House and the advisory boards of Con Tinta, Field’s End and the Centrum Writers Conference. A play based on her novel, " Spirits of the Ordinary", was produced by The Miracle Theatre of Portland, Oregon. Alcalá is also a co-founder of and contributing editor to "The Raven Chronicles". She teaches creative writing at workshops and programs in Washington state and elsewhere, including Seattle University, the University of New Mexico and Richard Hugo House. La Llorona continues to be a popular legend in Latin America, but one in need of greater study in order to fully understand her cultural influence and importance.Kathleen Alcalá (born 29 August 1954) is the author of a short-story collection and three novels set in the American Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico. Weeping Women: La Llorona in Modern Latina and Chicana Lore is an illustrated mixed-genre anthology that brings together poets, researchers, artists, and storytellers from diverse backgrounds to examine the figure’s literal and metaphorical influence. The figure appears in literature, film, music, and pop culture media. Her legend has been passed down for generations and has taken on many variations over time, from a ghostly figure to a vengeful spirit preying on children who wander too close to the water’s edge. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived, however, they sought to suppress the native religions and turned La Llorona into a symbol of sin and punishment. She is said to have been a celebrated goddess of fertility who was worshiped by the Aztecs. La Llorona’s origins date to precolonial indigenous cultures. Overcome with guilt and grief, she spends the rest of her days wandering the riverbank, crying out for her lost children. The legend tells of a woman who, after being betrayed by her husband, drowns her children in a river in a fit of rage and despair. borderlands but also throughout Central and South America. Doomed to wander riverbanks searching for her children, she is both cursed and revered, especially in Mexico and the U.S. One of the most pervasive yet least studied figures in Latin American culture is La Llorona, the weeping woman. Understanding the legend and legacy of La Llorona, the weeping woman