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Vickie Vértiz

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Cha Cha Nail Covers Take Over the World

This story is part of KCET Departures’ series of articles and essays on the Informal Economies of L.A. and how … More

Ana Guajardo, Artistas y Empresarios, AyE, Boyle Heights, Cha Cha Covers, Cha Cha Nail Covers, Chicana art, Chicana businesses, Chicana craft, City Lab, Good Mexican Girl, Latina businesses, Latina entrepreneurs, los angeles, LURN, mercados de Los Angeles, reina prado, Vickie Vertiz

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • 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 2020 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)!
  • To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, NYC
  • Upcoming readings: April and May 2019
  • AWP 2019– Portland
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