We Reached a Tentative Agreement, so My Collection/Writing Is Back on! #barrioblues

29/1/2019

On Saturday, January 26, after months of negotiating, The Cook County College Teachers Union, Local 1600 reached tentative agreements for Faculty and Professionals/Part-Time Professionals. That was an amazing end to months of negotiating and hours of hard work to get my members a fair contract. Although my work on the Faculty Negotiation team is not over, it's high time I get back on a regular writing schedule and that I finished my collection, Not Your Abuelita's Folktales.

I also got a fellow Union member and writer to offer to translate La Bruja in the Orchard and quid pro quo support for him, which I am more than ready to do. I am also going to ask a friend to redo the covers of the Bruja books. I asked my friend Brett, but he is on vacation right now, I think, and he is designing the cover to the collection mentioned above. These are all exciting prospects.

Well, back to writing before I crash.

Keep writing all and fighting your good fights! #barrioblues

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MARIA J. ESTRADA is an English college professor of Composition, Literature, and her favorite, Creative Writing. She grew up in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona in the real Barrio de Los Locos, a barrio comprised of new Mexican immigrants and first-generation Chicanos. Drawing from this setting and experiences, she writes like a loca every minute she can—all while magically balancing her work and family obligations. She lives in Chicago’s south side with her wonderfully supportive husband, two remarkable children, and a menagerie of animals.

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