La Chiflada - Paperback

by Nadia Mota (Author)

Streetlight glow and swinging screen doors, lipstick smudge and secondhand shoes-- in her debut collection, Nadia Mota offers the reader glimpses of grief filtered through the lens of girlhood. With sharp-edged iconography, La Chiflada spends time looking at Chicana identity, lineage, and home. Repetition and refrain are a persistent heartbeat that connects these poems and highlights how lived pain mingles with pain that is passed down, how each loss today magnifies the last.

Author Biography

Nadia Mota is a Chicana writer and artist from the east side of Adrian, Michigan. She received her MFA in poetry at The University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program where she was awarded a Zell Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in the BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT, The Offing, and PANK Magazine. Nadia currently resides in Ypsilanti, Michigan.