BookWoman presents Tejanaland by Teresa Palomo Acosta

BookWoman is delighted to present Teresa Palomo Acosta for the launch of her book, Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts (Texas A&M Press, 2021). Tejanaland collects three decades of Acosta’s work in poems, essays, drama, and children’s story that address the cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that have informed the author from childhood to the present.

Poet, historian, author, and activist Teresa Palomo Acosta grew up in McGregor, Texas, in a home approximately 100 human paces from the railroad tracks. She first learned about music and writing from her maternal grandfather Maximino and her mother Sabina. At 11, she decided to become a writer and spent the next four years cogitating before settling on poetry as her chosen form. Teresa’s degrees in Mexican American Studies from UT Austin and in Journalism from Columbia University reinforced her commitment to depict her Tejanaland life in equal measures of joy and pain.

In addition to Tejanaland, Acosta is the author of the poetry collections In the Season of Change (Eakin Press, 2003), Nile and Other Poems (Red Salmon Press, 1999), and Passing Time (Teresa Palomo Acosta, 1984). Acosta co-authored Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (University of Texas Press, 2003) with Ruthe Winegarten.

Acosta will read and discuss selections from Tejanaland, which is the most recent title in Texas A&M Press’s Women in Texas History Series. sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women’s History. Melissa Hield of the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation will open the evening with an introduction, and Cindy Huyser will host.

Tejanaland is available for order at BookWoman: (512)472-2785 or bookwomanaustin@gmail.com.

Teresa Palomo Acosta