Jackeline's Butterfly honors and commemorates the life of Jackeline Caal, the seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on December 8, 2018. Jackeline and her father, Nery Caal, were part of a group of 163 asylum seekers who crossed the New Mexican border the previous day. They turned themselves in to the authorities at around 10 PM, but when Jackeline began to vomit and have seizures, it took 90 minutes before she was seen by medical professionals. The doctors recorded a body temperature of 105.7° F.
Xánath Caraza es viajera, educadora, narradora y poeta. Enseña en la Universidad de Missouri-Kansas City y es la Writer in Residence de Westchester Community College, Nueva York. Caraza recibió la Beca Nebrija para Creadores de 2014 del Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares en España. Es columnista de La Bloga, Smithsonian Latino Center, Periódico de Poesía y Revista Literaria Monolito. Su poemario Sílabas de viento recibió el 2015 International Book Award de poesía. También recibió ...
FlowerSong Press is an independent press located in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. This editorial nurtures essential verses from, around and across the border areas. Voices from Latin America, USA, A., and around the world. It has an extensive catalog, where we can find novels, poetry, science fiction, non-fiction, in addition to presenting options for the smallest readers with its Juventud Press label. Among her list of writers, we can find Liliana Valenzuela, Tatiana Figueroa, Sonia Gutiérrez, Esther M. García among others. Lastly, FlowerSong Press, and Prickly Pear ...