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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: quinceañeras

“Faking Business,” a new story up at the JFR

What happens when your arch nemesis shows up at a random Commerce quinceañera in the same Payless platforms? Find out here at … More

City of Commerce, Kamala Puligandla, Latinos, Payless shoes, quinceañeras, Sergio's Tacos, southeast LA, teenagers, The James Franco Review, Vickie Vertiz, young adult fiction

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • April 2021 Readings
  • Virtual AWP 2021 panel, “The Woven Verse: An Exploration of the Latinx Verse Novel in Kidlit”
  • Toyoteria: Jaime Muñoz’s Apparitions of Faith
  • On family violence and waiting for the Big One
  • “1989 Caprice Classic,” a poem
  • KCET Story: Third-annual Southeast L.A. River Arts Festival held entirely online
  • Teaching online? Don’t panic. Seriously.
  • AWP 2021 in San Antonio: events!
  • Yesika Salgado and I chop it up: video from 2019 LitLit Conference: Latinx/L.A. Poetics
  • Vickie in New York (and Vermont)!
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