| Gloria
L. Velásquez is the creator of the Roosevelt High School Series.
It contains five novels which feature adolescents of different ethnic
backgrounds: Juanita Fights the School Board (1994); Maya's Divided
World (1995); Tommy Stands Alone (1995); Rina's Family Secret (1998);
and In Search Of Ankiza's Rainbow(2000). Gloria Veláquez has
been the recipient of numerous awards. In 1996, she was featured during
Hispanic Heritage Month on KTLA, Los Angeles. Velásquez was
also selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans,
1994-1995. She has similarly been included in Chicano Writers: Second
Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Francisco Lomelí
and Carl Shirley. Velásquez also received the 11th Chicano
Literary Prize in the Short Story from the University of California
at Irvine, 1985. |
