Carmen Tafolla

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carmen Tafolla
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1951(1951-07-29)
Age	73
Birthplace	San Antonio
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Cancer

Carmen Tafolla Biography

Carmen Tafolla is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on July 29, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Chicana author, who is well-known for her work as a poet and children’s fiction writer. She was the poet laureate of San Antonio between 2012 and 2014. She was also the poet laureate of Texas in 2015-2016.

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Carmen Tafolla (born 29 July 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chicana writer from San Antonio, Texas, and a Professor Emerita of Bicultural Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014, and was named the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2015–16. Tafolla has written more than thirty books, and won multiple literary awards. She is one of the most highly anthologized Chicana authors in the United States, with her work appearing in more than 300 anthologies.

Tafolla served as the Director of the Mexican-American Studies Center at Texas Lutheran College, Seguin from 1973 to 1976, and from 1978 to 1979. She has served as Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno, as Special Assistant to the President for Cultural Diversity Programming at Northern Arizona University, has taught at numerous universities throughout the Southwest, and is currently Professor Emerita of Bicultural Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

She was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised there.

Carmen Tafolla Net Worth

Carmen Tafolla is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carmen Tafolla 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1972, she graduated from Austin College with a bachelor’s in Spanish and French. The following year, she earned her master’s in education at Austin College.

In 1976, she published her first poetry anthology, Get Your Tortillas Together. She was awarded the Charlotte Zolotow Award in 2010 for Best Children’s Picture Book, in recognition of her novel What can you do with a paleta?

Tafolla was born in San Antonio, Texas on 29 July 1951. She graduated from Austin College with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French in 1972, and earned a Master’s degree in Education from Austin College the following year. She pursued further graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a PhD in Bilingual and Foreign Education in 1981. Tafolla has three children, and was married to Ernesto M. Bernal for 38 years until his death in 2017

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Carmen Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carmen Tafolla celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.