Irma olmedo biography

          About the author Olmedo was..

          Tales from the Barrio and Beyond is a new collection of short stories by my friend and colleague Irma Olmedo, published by Floricanto Press. These stories focus on the experiences of Puerto Ricans who came to Nueva York in the great migration of the1950s.

          Irma Olmedo is Associate Professor Emerita whose research and teaching are in the areas of language education, teacher development and issues of immigration.

        1. Irma Olmedo is Associate Professor Emerita whose research and teaching are in the areas of language education, teacher development and issues of immigration.
        2. Irma Maria Olmedo was born in Puerto Rico, and moved to New York City at the age of eight with her family.
        3. About the author Olmedo was.
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        5. Irma M. Olmedo is a retired professor from the University of Illinois-Chicago who is now starting her second career as a fiction writer.

          6. Olmedo’s book is receiving critical acclaim, and gaining a wider audience with renewed interest in Latinx authors, and especially women writers.

          In this collection of short stories, Irma Olmedo immerses her readers in the world of her childhood growing up in New York’s El Barrio… Tinged with nostalgia for her years surrounded by family, celebratory meals, and togetherness while facing economic challenges as other working-class Puerto Rican families in la gran urbe, Olmedo’s stories reclaim the humanity of displaced Puerto Rican families…through dialogues that are succinct yet truly human, exploding with a candidly felt, nurturing cariño.

          While the focus rests on her extended family, the stories reveal a larger s