Contributor History
- The Dust of Pious Feet, Conjunctions:75
Biography
Helena María Viramontes is the author of the novels Their Dogs Came with
Them and Under the Feet of Jesus, as well as the collection The Moths and
Other Stories. A 2007 Ford Fellow in Literature, she has also received the John
Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a Spirit Award from the California Latino
Legislative Caucus. Viramontes is Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York, where she is at work on a new novel.
Them and Under the Feet of Jesus, as well as the collection The Moths and
Other Stories. A 2007 Ford Fellow in Literature, she has also received the John
Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a Spirit Award from the California Latino
Legislative Caucus. Viramontes is Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York, where she is at work on a new novel.
