González, Bárbara Renaud, 1953-

Bárbara Renaud González is a free-lance writer, journalist and activist. She received her B.A. and Masters in Social Work and has done post-graduate work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Her book, Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? was recently published making her the first Chicana author to be published by UT Press.

Since 1997, she has focused mostly on her writing starting with journalism, then essays, investigative articles, opinions, poetry and finally to writing a novel. For five years she wrote a column for the San Antonio Express-News . Her essays and articles have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Nation, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and many others.

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