BIO
Juliana Aragón Fatula’s ancestors, indigenous to Aztlan, migrated from New Mexico to Southern Colorado. She is the author of The Road I Ride Bleeds, Crazy Chicana in Catholic City, and Red Canyon Falling on Churches (winner of the High Plains Book Award in 2016.) She has been a Macondista (alumna of the Macondo Writers Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros) since 2011, was a Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities ambassador, and Director of Creative Writing for Mujeres Unidas (Women United) at Colorado State University, Pueblo.
She has conducted writing workshops for Colorado Writers in the Schools K-12, Bridging Borders, César Chávez Academy, and Cañon City Middle School. She performed in the nineties with Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver, and after Operation Desert Storm, she toured in the Persian Gulf for the Department of Defense with the Latin Locomotions. She is currently shopping her first mystery, The Colorado Sisters, for a publisher. She believes in the power of education to change lives.