María DeGuzmán

María DeGuzmán is a scholar, creative writer, conceptual photographer, and music composer. She has published three scholarly books: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (Minnesota Press, 2005); Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, 2012); and Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). She has also published creative nonfiction in Callaloo; photo-text creative nonfiction in Oyster River Pages and La Piccioletta Barca; photo-text flash fiction in Bombay Gin (forthcoming); photography in The Grief Diaries, Coffin Bell, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Map Literary, Two Hawks Quarterly, Harbor Review, The Halcyone, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Ponder Review, Alluvian, and streetcake: a magazine of experimental writing; photo prose poetry in Landlocked Magazine; poetry in Empty Mirror; and short stories in Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, and Sinister Wisdom. Her SoundCloud website may be found at: https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman.