…y no se lo tragó la tierra / …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (PDF)

Tomás Rivera (1935-1984) was born to a family of migrant farm workers in the South Texas town of Crystal City. In spite of moving constantly to work the crops, Rivera managed to graduate from high school. He went on to obtain a degree in English from Southwest Texas State University. He then earned a master's degree in Spanish literature and a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures. He became a university administrator, and in 1979 he was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, a position he held for five years until his sudden death in 1984. His books published by Arte Público Press include The Harvest (1989), The Searchers (1990), the collection Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works (1991), and ...y no se lo trago de la tierra / ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1992).



Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, a widely published award-winning poet, is the author of Thirty an' Seen a Lot (Arte Público Press, 1982) and The Computer is Down (Arte Público Press, 1987). Her work has been widely anthologized, including in Hispanic American Literature, An Anthology (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Floricanto Sí, A Collection of Latina Poetry (Penguin, 1998), The Hispanic Literary Companion (Visible Ink Press, 1996) and Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature (University of New Mexico, 1996). Vigil-Piñón is the translator of the classic novel of Chicano literature, ...y no se lo tragó la tierra / ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Arte Público Press, 1995). She is also the editor of the first anthology of U.S. Latina literature, Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Women Write (Arte Público Press, 1983). She is the author of a bilingual children's book, Marina's muumuu/El muumuu de Marina (Piñata Books, 2001). A native of San Antonio, Vigil-Piñón lives and works in Houston, Texas.

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