Cecilia Caballero
ABOUT
Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Cecilia Caballero is a poet, writer, university lecturer, and co-editor of the bestselling book, The Chicana Motherwork Anthology.
Dr. Caballero is the inaugural recipient of the Julia Alvarez scholarship award from the 2024 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a 2024-2023 Octavia Butler Earthseed Fellow, a 2024 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow, a 2023 Aspen Words Emerging Writer fellow, and a 2023 California Arts Council fellow, among others.
As a teaching artist, Dr. Caballero facilitates writing wellness workshops for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. She views her workshops as co-created spaces of storytelling and healing justice and her teaching has been supported by the Abolitionist Teaching Network. She has been invited to give workshops for numerous colleges, universities, nonprofits, and community spaces, including Pasadena City College, UC Berkeley, East Los Angeles College, Maryland Humanities, Parenting for Liberation, Raising Mothers, and more. She is currently booking workshops for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
Dr. Caballero’s creative writing is forthcoming or appears in Lucky Jefferson, Strange Horizons, Witness Magazine, sin cesar (formerly Dryland), and elsewhere. She is currently writing a memoir and she is represented by Jenissa Graham at Bookends Literary Agency.
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Teaching Artist
As a teaching artist, Dr. Caballero facilitates writing wellness workshops for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in order to cultivate more communal spaces of storytelling and healing justice.
Speaker
Cecilia has given keynotes and talks for numerous institutions and organizations, including the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at UC Berkeley, Pasadena City College, San Diego State University, the University of Minnesota, and many more.
Writer
Dr. Caballero is currently working on a memoir and she is co-editor of the bestselling book, The Chicana Motherwork Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolución.