Author

Books by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

Cherríe Moraga is a Chicana playwright, poet, and activist whose other works include Loving in the War Years and Heroes and Saints. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a Chicana cultural theorist and creative writer best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, published in 1987. Together they edited This Bridge Called My Back in 1981 when both were emerging writers working outside academic institutions. The anthology won an American Book Award and became a foundational text in women's studies, ethnic studies, and queer theory curricula.