Rose Mary Salum
Rose Mary Salum has authored 9 books. She is the founder of the award-winning bilingual magazine Literal Magazine. She is also the founder of Literal Publishing, a bilingual publisher house. She has taught as a visiting professor at, Rice University, and Saint Thomas University.She is a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Her essays and fiction are included in an array of anthologies: Diáspora, Lados B, Narrativa de alto riesgo, The Body Subject & Subjected, Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors, Cruce de fronteras: Antología de escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos, Poéticas de los locamientos, Raíces latinas, narradores y poetas inmigrantes, America nuestra: antología de narrativa en español en Estados Unidos, Professions, among others. Her books have been translated to Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and English.
Books
Donde el río se toca Otras lunas Tres semillas de granada. Ensayos desde el inframundo Una de ellas The Water That Rocks the Silence El agua que mece el silencio Delta de las arenas, cuentos árabes, cuentos judíos Almalafa y Caligrafía, Literatura de origen árabe en América Latina Spaces in Between- ''Entre los espacios''
Awards and recognition
- Florida Book Awards
- Top Ten Houston Women
- Premio Panamericano Carlos Montemayor
- International Latino Book Award
- Top 35 Latinos
- International Latino Book Award,
- Author of the Year 2008 by the Hispanic Book Festival,
- Classical Award by Saint Thomas University,
- A Recognition by the Congress of the United States
- A Runner up for the PEN America's Nora Magid Award