Don't You Love It When You Still Find Typos?

3/3/2018

My good friend and union brother, Anthony Escuadro and I at a first-ever Union on Tap at the Emporium in Logan Square. Throwback games to the 80s fun!

, sFuck to the No! I was going over "La Bruja del Barrio Loco," and I was annoyed to find missing letters and stupid typos. This is the fourth time I go over it. Ugh. I am so glad I am having an editor looking over my work with a microscopic and wide lens-ed eye. (And, maybe her meticulous Boo, will also give it a read. He is an avid reader I respect, truly.)

Anyway, early this morning at like 2:30a.m., I had a golden hour or two to write, so I thought. I looked over "La Bruja" and was on a roll, when my daughter woke up calling for me.

I swear, she has an internal clock that lets her know when I'm awake. Still, I was blessed to get a little work in and spend some time loving my cats.

Love someone today, even your furry family. #Resist.

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Dr. Jesú Estrada,
Chicago, IL

I grew up on the outskirts of Yuma, AZ, close to the Cocopah reservation. Because I was ever-bored, I became an avid reader of Spanish comic books and anything in English. Then I moved onto Steinbeck and Stephen King and now read international authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Atwood, and Roque Dalton. I also read a lot of coming of age fiction.

I have been writing stories in both Spanish and English since I was six years old. My fiction and poetry focus on working class issues, primarily about laborers in the Southwest. I also write non-serious fiction, like zombie fiction (I was into it before it got popular with the Walking Dead series, which I love) and dabble in magical realism with a fusion of cuentos and folklore.

I have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Arts from Northern Arizona University. I have also taught creative writing, and will do so, spring 2019, if the stars align. Currently, I live in Chicago and teach full-time at Harold Washington College to an amazing student population.

More about me. I am happily married, been so for over ten years, and have a fabulous eight-year-old who makes my life phenomenal: He too is starting to write short stories. I had a second baby, Simona (3), which put a temporary set-back on the publication of my first book, but made my life infinitely more wonderful. My husband is also incredibly supportive and books my readings @ home60601@gmail.com.

That damned itch just won't let me be, so I'm back to my original love of words. Puro Amor!