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Cindy Williams Gutierrez

Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez is inspired by the silent and silenced voices of history and herstory. Her new collection, Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women, is a finalist for the 2019 International Latino Book Awards and was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor’s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship. She was selected by Poets & Writers Magazine as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for her poetry collection, the small claim of bones (Bilingual Press/Arizona State University), which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. Cindy received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama for Words That Burn, a dramatization of the WWII experiences of William Stafford, Lawson Inada, and Guy Gabaldón.
Cindy earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA Program with concentrations in Mesoamerican poetics, drama, and creative collaboration. A passionate educator, she has taught poetry to K-12 youth through the Portland Art Museum, the Right Brain Initiative, and Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools as well as to adults through the Council for Teachers of English, Literary Arts’s Delve Seminars, and the Stonecoast MFA Program. Cindy is a co-founder of Los Portenos, Portland’s Latino writers’ collective, and the founder of Grupo de ’08, a Lorca-inspired, Northwest collaborative-artists Salon.
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez reads on September 11, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. John the Evangelist Church, 2036 SE Jefferson St.
