Evangelina Vigil-Piñón Papers
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Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is an American poet, children's book author, translator, and television personality. Her work has been published widely, she also is the recipient of prestigious literary awards.
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Evangelina was born on November 29, , in San Antonio, Texas, United States. She is the daughter of Juan (a shoe repair shop operator) and Maria Soto (a homemaker; maiden name, Evangelina) Vigil. She is the second child in a family of ten children and grew up speaking both Spanish and English.
Her mother’s family came from Mexico to San Antonio, Texas in the early s. and her father’s family came from the area of Seguin, Texas. In her later childhood, she lived with her maternal grandmother’s extended family and heard her great- uncle tell many stories about life growing up in Parras, Coahuila, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution and about the struggles making a new life in the United States at the turn of the century. According to Elaine Dorough Johnson in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, she learned from her maternal grandmother “to observe an
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Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is a Latina, poet, translator and television personality. Born on November 29, in San Antonio, Texas. Her mother and father are from San Antonio and Seguin, Texas respectively. The maternal side of her family emigrated to Texas in the early s from Parras, Mexico.
After spending most of her life in San Antonio, Evangelina earned a scholarship for business administration and enrolled at Prairie View A&M University in , later transferring to the University of Houston. She graduated from UH with a B.A. in English in In Evangelina Mark Anthony Piñón and the following year she gave birth to her son, Marc-Antony Piñón
She studied at St. Mary's University, and University of Texas at San Antonio. She has been assistant editor of Americas Review, an instructor at UH, and a television personality based in Houston where she continues to live. Since , Vigil-Piñón has been the Public Information Officer for the City of Houston's Department of Neighborhoods.
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Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
Many Houston television viewers know Evangelina Vigil-Piñón as the host and producer of Community Close Up: Viva Houston, which airs Sundays on ABC-KTRK TV Channel In addition to being recognized as a television personality, she receives local exposure as the singer-songwriter of Houston Tranquility Base, a trio that performs Latin and Brazilian Jazz. And, as an award-winning poet, Evangelina is also well known to those in the literary community. Her numerous works have been widely published including Thirty an' Seen a Lot (Arte Público Press, ), winner of the American Book Award, along with her contribution as editor of the first anthology of U.S. Latina literature, Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Woman Write and her translation of the notable Mexican-American novel by Tomás Rivera, Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Arte Público Press, ). Late last fall, Arte Público Press also published her first children's bilingual picture book, Marina's Muumuu / El muumuu de Marina.
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