Estela Portillo-Trambley
Estela Portillo-Trambley was a Chicana writer known for her poetry and plays.
Biography
Portillo-Trambley was born on January 16, 1936 in El Paso, Texas.[1] She earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Texas at El Paso and had a career as a high school teacher from 1957 to 1964, at the El Paso Technical Institute, before dedicating herself to writing.[2][3][4] She is the first Chicana to publish a short story collection and the first to write a musical comedy.[2] She was the resident dramatist at El Paso Community College from 1970-75.[2][3] While there she produced and directed the college's dramatic productions and served as a drama instructor.[2] She died on December 1, 1999.[1]
Awards
Portillo-Trambley won the 1973 Quinto Sol Award, a literary award presented by Quinto Sol Publications.[1][2][3] and in 1985 attained second place in the 1985 New York Shakespeare Festival's Hispanic American playwright's competition for her play Black Light.[5] In 1990 she was named Author of the Pass by the El Paso Herald Post.[5] and was inducted into the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.[5]
Works
Poetry
- Impressions (haiku poetry), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
- (Editor) Chicanas en literatura y Arte (title means Chicana Women in Literature and Art), Quinto Sol, 1974.
- Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (short stories), Tonatiuh International, 1976 ISBN 978-0892290017
- Trini, Bilingual Press, 1986 ISBN 978-1558615021
Plays
- The Day of the Swallows (also see below), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
- Morality Play (three-act musical), first produced in El Paso, Tex., at Chamizal National Theatre, 1974.
- (Contributor) We Are Chicano, Washington Square Press, 1974.
- Black Light (three-act), first produced in El Paso at Chamizal National Theatre, 1975.
- El Hombre Cosmico (title means The Cosmic Man), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1975.
- Sun Images (musical), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1976.
- (Contributor) Roberto Garza, editor, Chicano Theatre (includes The Day of the Swallows), Notre Dame University Press, 1976.
- Isabel and the Dancing Bear (three-act), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1977.
- Sor Juana and Other Plays, Bilingual Press, 1983 ISBN 978-0916950330
- Autumn Gold (three-act comedy)
- Broken Moon (three-act play)
- Los amores de Don Estafa (three-act comedy in English).
References
- 1 2 3 1936-, Trambley, Estela Portillo,. "Estela Portillo Trambley Papers, 1969-". www.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale. 1993.
- 1 2 3 Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2001.
- ↑ Ruiz, Vicki L.; Korrol, Virginia Sánchez (2006-05-03). Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253111692.
- 1 2 3 "Estela Portillo Trambley". The Feminist Press. Retrieved 2015-12-18.