Bárbara Renaud González

About

Bárbara Renaud González is a Tejana born in South Texas, who grew up in the Texas Panhandle. Her novel, Golondrina, why did you leave me?, was the first Chicana novel published by the University of Texas Press. Author of The Boy Made of Lightning, an interactive children’s book on the life of the late, great voting rights activist, Willie Velásquez, she is currently developing The (S)Hero’s Journey, a series of children’s books about the marginalized (s)heroes of Texas, and finishing her first Tex-Mex adult fairy tale.

Articles

BECAUSE I DON’T GIVE UP

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Willie grew up right here, on the Westside, el Hueso. The bone of San Antonio. We call it the barrio. Lately, people have been getting these...

By Bárbara Renaud González

EMILIANO ZAPATA COMES TO SAN ANTONIO

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. My mother saw the border as a metaphor for possibility. To her, the border wasn’t geography, but poetry. Sometimes the border is a...

By Bárbara Renaud González

IN THE SHADOW OF THE RANCH

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. My father was not so different than Gerty. He was a King Ranch man through and through. He spoke English and Spanish as one...

By Bárbara Renaud González

THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION AND THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. San Antonio is the patron saint of lost causes, and Rolando created a statue of him in faux-marble white with the Alamo perched like a hat,...

By Bárbara Renaud González

THE WARS LOST AND WON IN TEXAS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Because of her story, I’ve seen the way that wars secure land at the cost of great violence, hate, and marginalization. Sometimes the...

By Bárbara Renaud González