Maria Ramos Chertok

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Writing & Awards

“I often find that the only way I can truly know a part of myself is when I see it as words on the page. My goal in writing is to educate myself about myself. I don’t see that as a selfish act, rather I see it as my responsibility.”

AWARDS

2019 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, 2nd place awarded in the intercultural essay category for personal essay Roots & Rebellion (January 2020)

Fiction Mentorship Award – The Word for Diversity:  A Storytelling Sanctuary (March 2018) https://www.thewordfordiversity.org/programs

1stPlace– Intergenerational Family Recipes Should Never Be Lost, Intergeneration Foundation Storytelling Contest (Kraemer IG Story Contest/Bridges Together),  (December 2016) https://bit.ly/2NgHksi

PUBLICATIONS

Non-Fiction

“A New Roadmap.” she’s got this!  Women on Standing Strong and Moving On, An anthology of Write on Mamas.  All Things Books (February 2019)

  • San Francisco Book Festival Award 2019 Winner, Anthology
  • Kindle Book Awards Finalist 2019 – Non-fiction
  • Kindle Reader’s Choice 2019 top vote in Non-fiction
  • IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist 2019 – Non-fiction: Parenting/Family/Relationships
  • American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist 2019: Anthologies: Non-fiction
  • 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist and Honorable Mention in the Essay category
  • Independent Press Award 2020 Distinguished Favorite, Anthology

The Butterfly Series:  Fifty-two Weeks of Inquiries for Transformation, iMAGINe Flight Press (August 2018) https://amzn.to/2P4rzXp

  • 2019 Finalist International Book Awards
  • 2019 Reviewers Choice Award, Reader Views

“Look Where You’re Living.” All The Women in My Family Sing:  Writing from Women of Color, edited by Deborah Santana – Nothing But The Truth Publishing (January 30, 2018) http://bit.ly/2uVQOU7

Poetry

“Nine Lives of Disability.” –The Disability, Medicine, and Illness Issue of District Lit (an online journal of writing and art), July 2017  http://bit.ly/2uO5mmG

“Looking Back.” Enclave: Post-Election day 2016 Voices, Entropymag.org  (November 10, 2016) http://bit.ly/2pRtDW7

“Womanhood.” To Become Louder Even Still: Responses to Sexual Violence in Literary Spaces, Apogee Journal, (April 2016)http://bit.ly/1NovnLf

Micro-Fiction

A Quiet Courage – three 100- word pieces published in on-line journal December 2016:

Sam published in A Quiet Courage (December 23, 2016)

All in One Day published in A Quiet Courage (December 23, 2016)

Sunrise to Sunset published in A Quiet Courage (December 23, 2016)

Guest Blogger Latinxs in Kid Lit (www.latinosinkidlit.com)

Guest Blogger, Book Review of Frida Kahlo y Sus Animlitos (English and Spanish versions) by Monica Brown (November 27, 2017) https://bit.ly/2P3Tqab

Guest Blogger, Book Review of Side by Side/Lada a Lado by Monica Brown, (October 5, 2017)  https://bit.ly/2RhHJyb

Guest Blogger, Book Review of One of a Kind Like Me/Unico Como Yoby Laurin Mayeno http://bit.ly/2uVOCIM  (May 4, 2017)

Guest Blogger, Book Review of YA book Broken Lucky Girl by Ruth Beharhttp://bit.ly/2qsJNGs  (March 30, 2017)

Guest Blogger,  “A Heart Called Home:  An Interview With Cultural Anthropologist Ruth Behar,” http://bit.ly/1zs50fl,  September 25, 2012  – 3200 Stories of the SF Jewish Community Center

SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES/READINGS

“What Matters”– Selected to read in San Francisco’s Listen to Your Mother 2016 show (May 6, 2016)https://bit.ly/2r4ygO1                        

“Going Rogue,” Selected to read in San Francisco’s LitCrawl event with Write on Mamas  (October 2016)

About Maria

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A graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Maria was a fellow with the National Hispana Leadership Institute, where she attended the Center for Creative Leadership and Harvard School of Public Policy. She received her mediation training from the Center for … Read more...

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