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Myrna Santiago
Lluvia de Milagros was born in the Bay Area where she spent most of her time growing up, traveling to every nook, city, town, cafe, museum, and bookstore that Northern California could offer. At an...view moreLluvia de Milagros was born in the Bay Area where she spent most of her time growing up, traveling to every nook, city, town, cafe, museum, and bookstore that Northern California could offer. At an early age, Lluvia could be found any given day journaling, reading Calvin and Hobbes, “collaging” her bedroom walls with music posters and CD covers, playing and sadly destroying her grandmothers’ wardrobe (pre-thrifting era), dancing, singing, always taking her talent show group performances too seriously, listening to her grandmothers’ old Mexican folk tales and ranch songs, cooking potions and new creations that were never edible, painting outside to paste real flowers and leaves to her canvasses, and making up her own games with family and friends. Growing up always creative and imaginative, she became acutely observant having spent so much time with her at the time, single working mother. Lluvia was a single child living in a mixed generational home of aunts, cousins, her mother and grandparents, where she learned to speak Spanish as her first language and early on became exposed to a community of strong, hard-working, independent and fierce womyn. After having experienced a kidnapping and rape in her early years in High School, Lluvia returned from a Treatment program in Utah to graduate on time at Notre Dame High School in downtown San Jose. Once completing High School, she went off to change numerous majors - Psychology, Sociology, Environmental Studies, Teachers for Tomorrow Program - to finally arrive to Women’s and Gender Studies. During her time at Saint Mary’s College of California, she completed her minor studies, one summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico then returned to continue teaching throughout the Bay Area in different service programs. Over four years, Lluvia performed numerous shows with her spoken word pieces, was asked to publish on different media forums and has been interviewed by different radio stations on her creative pieces and poetry work. Lluvia involved herself in numerous student and non-profit organizations in and out of University, was apart of the union efforts her freshman year to unionize Saint Mary’s in over 50 years. In addition, joined a Chicana Feminist Writers Collective that was based out of Berkeley and later that year helped coordinate the schools’ first Hip-Hop club named “Elements”. By graduation, as a full-time student and now published author, Lluvia is set to pursue her ambitions in the arts – music, creative writing/screenwriting, scholastics, and politics through what she believes to be an artistic and accessible public platform. Throughout her life, she has witnessed discrimination and trauma for being an ambitious, intrinsic, talented, charismatic, and young woman of color, which has only inspired her even more to resist and challenge the standard of beauty, intelligence, legitimacy, creativity, originality, and power. In all of her publications and creative performances or artistic pieces she has expressed her passion in multiculturalism, transnationalism, queer studies, ethnic studies, youth empowerment, environmental ethics, education equity, civil rights, and diverse inclusivity. Being the daughter of two elected officials, Lluvia has always believed that she is independent yet parallel to her and her parents’ work. However, she resists the idea that she is successful through and under the iconic images of her parents. Lluvia de Milagros, believes overall in the power of the womyn author who has been too many times historically erased -
“I am a sister, I am a partner, a scholar, a thinker, an observer, an outgoing introvert, a daughter born in April, a granddaughter holding the heart of a warm house of Abuelitos, Tías, primos, and crispy lightly burnt tortillas always on the comal. I am a dancer – only when the summer season brings its blanket of warmth and sun-kissed memories that have yet to be made...”view less