User:Jennaf

I am a librarian and zine maker and here to create and edit entries for women zinesters, particularly women of color. I am ruled by two cats.

Entries created

 * Cindy Crabb
 * Marina Gutierrez
 * Victoria Law
 * Kyle Lukoff
 * Mimi Thi Nguyen
 * Alison Piepmeier with User:Bettyclaire
 * Marty Pottenger

Celia C. Perez

 * Strange Birds
 * Except she told me not to...
 * The First Rule of Punk
 * Ofrenda
 * Zines

References

Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:American authors Category:American people of Cuban descent Category:American people of Mexican descent Category: University of Florida alumni

Future Zine Entries

 * Michelle Cruz Gonzales expand
 * Lauren Jade Martin
 * Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha add zine content
 * Osa Atoe
 * POC Zine Project
 * Suzy Exposito add zine content
 * Ashley Altadonna

Future librarian & library project entries

 * Ann Sparanese
 * Carolyn Ulrich http://za3038.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/carolyn-ulrich-library-luminary
 * QZAP
 * Radical Reference

Zinester notability

 * seminality
 * print run
 * longevity
 * notoriety

Wikipedia identifiers
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Celia C. Pérez
Celia C. Pérez is a children's book author, librarian, and zine maker of Cuban and Mexican descent. She was raised in Miami, Florida and has been based in Chicago since 2001. She began making zines as an undergraduate and then graduate student in secondary English at the University of Florida in Gainesville in the 1990s. In 2017 Pérez published her first middle grades novel The First Rule of Punk and followed it two years later with Strange Birds.

Biography
She began making zines as an undergraduate at the University of Florida in Gainesville in the 1990s and by the end of that decade was part of the "Pander Mafia," that is people whose zines were distributed by Ericka Bailie's Pander Zine Distro.

Career
Pérez briefly taught high school English. When she realized the classroom wasn't for her, she moved to Tampa to pursue an MLIS from the University of South Florida.

Personal Life
Pérez is of Cuban descent on her father's side and Mexican on her mother's and has three living siblings. She is married to Brett Zeeb, an attorney with Illinois's State Appellate Defender. They have a son who attends a Chicago public high school with a racist mascot.

Books

 * Strange Birds
 * The First Rule of Punk
 * Ofrenda: A Zine Anthology

Articles

 * The Book That Changed My Life: Write What's Missing
 * Funny Bones
 * Martí's Song for Freedom
 * Unschooled: Writing without an MFA by Celia Pérez
 * When Google Translate Gives You Arroz con Mango: Erroneous Español and the Need for #ownvoices

Zines
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 * An hour from now/an hour ago
 * I Dreamed I Was Assertive
 * Words that soak up life : a reading compilation zine ''