Mirtha N. Quintanales

Mirtha Quintanales is a Cuban lesbian feminist, writer, and a professor at New Jersey City University.[1][2][3] Her short writing piece "I come with no Illusions" was featured in the feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back.[4]

Early life

Born in Cuba in 1948, Mirtha Natacha Quintanales immigrated to the United States from Cuba at the age of 13 on April 2, 1962.[5]

Bibliography

• This Bridge Called My Back (1981)
• Telling to Live (2001)

References

1. Givens, Sonja M. Brown; Tassie, Keisha Edwards (2014-03-20). Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 89. ISBN 9780739185599.
2. Caraway, Nancie (1991). Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism. Univ. of Tennessee Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9780870497209. Mirtha Quintanales.
3. Isaac, Joel; Kloppenberg, James T.; O'Brien, Michael; Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer (2016-11-15). The Worlds of American Intellectual History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190459499.
4. Adams, Alice Elaine (1994). Reproducing the Womb: Images of Childbirth in Science, Feminist Theory, and Literature. Cornell University Press. pp. 202, 2015. ISBN 0801481619. Mirtha Quintanales.
5. Morraga and Anzaldua, Cherrie and Gloria, ed. (2015). This Bridge Called My Back (Fourth ed.). New York: State University of New York Press, Albany. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4384-5439-9.