- Department
- Office of Alumni Relations and Development
- Phone
- +1 (210) 9998039
- Email Address
- cmendoz3@trinity.edu
- Website
- Celeste Mendoza's website
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit and higher education fundraising and program management. She also is a published poet, essayist, and playwright. She holds a doctoral degree in Education Leadership and Policy, and an MFA in Poetry. She was a co-founder of CantoMundo, a workshop for Latina/o poets, a fellow of Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers, and Macondo, a community of writers who advance social justice.
Education
- College of Education, University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.
- Bennington College, M.F.A
- Universidad Autonoma de Mexico Escuela de Extension en San Antonio, Diplomado
- Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A.
Selected Publications
- Ghost-fishing: an eco-justice poetry anthology (The University of Georgia Press: 2018)
- Entre Guadalupe and Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (University of Texas Press: 2016)
- Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press: 2014)
- Beneath the Halo (Wings Press, 2013)
- Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience (Calaca Press/Red Salmon Press:2007)
- ¡Floricanto Sí!: U.S. Latina Poetry (Penguin:1998), among others.
Teaching and Expertise
- Higher education
- Philanthropy
- Poetry