Workshops. He co-edited the anthologies Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. His work has been published in Duende Journal, Acentos Review, Green Mountains Review, Texas Poetry Review, Hawai’i Review, and World Literature Today, among other journals.
Emily Everett is managing editor of The Common. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Putnam Books, and her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, and Best Small Fictions, among other journals.
Morales and Everett co-edited "a portfolio of writing and art from twenty-seven contributors with roots in the farmworker community,' which was published in print and online in The Common magazine.
At Electric Lit they tagged eleven books that showcase
the richness and range of the farmworker experience. The struggle of it—the physical and mental strain, the mistreatment and low pay and food insecurity—but also the beauty of it: the pride of quick, skilled hands, the radiance of an early morning sunrise in the fields, the fierce love and resiliency of a close-knit family.One title on the list:
Read about the other entries on the list.Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes
Cornell professor Helena María Viramontes grew up in East LA, working summers in the fields of Fresno with her family—work they had done for generations. Under the Feet of Jesus centers on Estrella, a teenager who picks crops with her family. The novel beautifully evokes the physicality and sensations and settings of farmwork, but also teems with other life: Estrella falls in love with a young farmworker, and must fight back to protect him against the exploitative system they are all part of.
--Marshal Zeringue
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