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His book-length lyric essay The River Always Wins was published by Deep Vellum in 2020, and the follow-up volume The River of Goodness will be published in early 2024. He founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas and currently is the technical advisor on water issues to the Environmental Commission of the City of Dallas. His trilogy I AM A TEACHER toured for 20 years and later became a book (Simon & Schuster), which was a Critic’s Choice in Time magazine and the basis for the Be A Teacher, Be A Hero public service ad campaign. He has written and performed nine original one person stage plays, which he has toured to 41 of the 50 states. During the 1980’s he traveled to El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Africa, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines to study and to participate in freedom movements in those countries. ' The River Always Wins is an arts-based project-book, music, video, stage, audio book, and visual-designed to inspire people to come together to create positive, lasting social change.' -David Marquisĭavid Marquis is a long-time committed activist for environmental and social change in the Dallas area. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The River Always Wins. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. New members will be inducted at the upcoming TIL annual meeting and banquet in El Paso, Texas on April 22-23, 2022, which will also include the Annual TIL Literary Awards.A meditation on water as metaphor for social change, based on the author’s experiences as an environmental activist.Ī meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. These fifteen masters of the word include novelists, short-story writers, poets, memoirists, publishers, children’s authors, and scholars.”

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We are extremely proud of the outstanding work that these writers represent: children’s stories full of empathy and humor, poetry that breaks open the heart to imagine new perspectives, prose that challenges narrative forms and explores psychological complexities, and publishing that finds and amplifies voices on the margins of society. Our newest members have expanded literary audiences to include diverse voices and readers, and have opened minds with books that reconsider history and scholarship. Sergio Troncoso, President of the Texas Institute of Letters states, “The Texas Institute of Letters continues to identify and honor outstanding writers from all literary genres. The 2022 honorees include fiction and nonfiction writers Amanda Eyre Ward, Frederick Luis Aldama, and Shelley Armitage award-winning poets Edward Vidaurre and Melissa Studdard children’s and YA authors Christina Soontornvat, Francisco Stork, Don Tate, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Varian Johnson, Jennifer Ziegler, and Lupe Ruiz-Flores journalist Carol Flake Chapman publisher Will Evans and historian Catherine Clinton. Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelmingly approved fifteen writers to join the ranks of the TIL. Membership is based on ongoing and exceptional literary accomplishment. The TIL’s membership consists of the state’s most respected writers – including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Academy Award, Americas Award, International Latino Book Award, Lambda Literary Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Guggenheim Fellowship. TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS ANNOUNCES FIFTEEN DISTINGUISHED WRITERS TO BE INDUCTEDįor the 86th year, members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) have decided on the induction of new members to join the ranks of the distinguished honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and to recognize distinctive literary achievement.