Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte
Born	South Phoenix, Arizona
Occupation	Novelist
Education	Arizona State University (BA, MA)
Notable awards	American Book Awards 2009 If I Die in Juarez

Stella Pope Duarte (born South Phoenix) is a Latina American novelist.

Life

She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. and MA in Educational Counseling. She taught at Arizona State University from 1999–2008, and South Mountain Community College. She was a member of the Arizona Commission on the Arts from 2006 to 2010.

Awards

• 2009 American Book Award, for If I Die in Juarez
• 2004 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award
• 2001 Arizona Commission on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, for Let Their Spirits Dance
• 1997 Arizona Commission on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, for Fragile Night

Works

• Fragile Night. Bilingual Review Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-927534-71-0.
• Let Their Spirits Dance. HarperCollins. 2003. ISBN 978-0-06-008948-1.
• If I Die in Juárez. University of Arizona Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8165-2492-1.
• Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories. Arte Publico Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55885-600-4.

Anthology

• Eugenia Zukerman, ed. (2003). "Rosanna Pope". In My Mother's Closet. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books. ISBN 978-1-893732-47-6.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Stella Pope Duarte", Superstition Review, Spring 2009
• "Spotlight on Stella Pope Duarte", La Bloga, March 10 2008
• "Stella Pope Duarte, A Writer's Call: Nowhere to Run", Barriozona Magazine, March 6 2006