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Marian Urquilla

Marian Urquilla’s work explores the intersections of migration, spirituality, and identity. Her poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and West Trestle. A Salvadoran immigrant, she and her wife live in California’s East Bay.

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La Llorona Finds Her Way to the Fortress of Happiness

by Marian Urquilla

The scariest part was not that La Llorona was a monster, or that she came when you called her name three times in the dark, or that she could come into your room at night and take you from your bed like she’d done with her own babies. It was that once she’d been a

Summer 2024

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Marian Urquilla

By Marian Urquilla

La Llorona Finds Her Way to the Fortress of Happiness

Summer 2024

SUPPORT DIVERSE VOICESIN LITERATURE

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