At Grande and CongressAt Grande and Congress

"As a fifth-generation Tucsonan, Mari Herreras always embraced what she describes as 'this gravel-lot town's ugly, weird, and beautiful,' during her decade as a staff writer and editor at the Tucson Weekly. Her poetry, like her journalism, simultaneously celebrates and reveals the harsh and lush reality of her gentrifying desert city and more. As a journalist, Herreras focused on those often-difficult stories surrounding Mexican American Studies at Tucson Unified School District, regional development, as well as a home-town people like no other. In AT GRANDE AND CONGRESS, the poetry chapbook published by R&R Press out June 2023, Herreras focuses most often on family, the desert, and the tender complexities of identity and being Chicana."--Publisher's website.