Austin American Statesman: How can those groups encourage, train and promote fantastic writers like the ones represented in your book?
Sergio Troncoso:
"By paying attention to them. By reading their work. By promoting them
and putting them in positions of power. It's not that complicated.
Many
literary institutions in Texas, and beyond, have ignored or stereotyped
Mexican American writers. "Nepantla Familias" shows the literary talent
we have in our community, talent that is winning national and
international awards and fellowships, that is selling hundreds of
thousands of books, that is being published in places from the New
Yorker to Ploughshares to the Yale Review."
