Marcos McPeek Villatoro

About The Author

Marcos McPeek Villatoro is the author of six novels, two collections of poetry, and a memoir. His Romilia Chacón crime fiction books have won national acclaim (named a Best Book by the Los Angeles Times) and have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese. Villatoro holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Writing at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he lectures on poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and his Latino and Appalachian heritages. He lives in Los Angeles, California. For more about the author’s work, visit www.thewritingbull.com.

Books by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Speak of It

A Memoir

By Marcos McPeek Villatoro
In the face of clashing family backgrounds and sexual abuse as a child, Marcos's extraordinary memoir maps his journey through self-discovery, from his Salvadoran-Appalachian parentage to his success as a writer, his mental illness, and his healing in an extraordinary memoir.
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