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Estela Portillo-Trambley was a Chicana writer. She was born on January 16, 1936 in El Paso, Texas and died on December 01, 1999. She won the prestigious Quinto Sol Award, a literary award presented by Quinto Sol Publications in 1973. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Texas at El Paso and had a career as a high school teacher from 1957 to 1964, at the El Paso Technical Institute, before dedicating herself to writing. She is the first Chicana to publish a short story collection and the first to write a musical comedy. She was the resident dramatist at El Paso Community College from 1970-75. While there she produced and directed the college's dramatic productions and served as a drama instructor.

Her play Black Light won second place in the 1985 New York Shakespeare Festival's Hispanic American playwright's competition. She was inducted into the El Paso Woman's Hall of Fame in 1996. In 1990 she was named Author of the Pass by the El Paso Herald Post.

Works

 * Impressions (haiku poetry), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
 * (Editor) Chicanas en literatura y Arte (title means Chicana Women in Literature and Art), Quinto Sol, 1974.
 * Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (short stories), Tonatiuh International, 1976 ISBN: 978-0892290017
 * Trini, Bilingual Press, 1986 ISBN: 978-1558615021

PLAYS

 * The Day of the Swallows (also see below), El Espejo Quinto Sol, 1971.
 * Morality Play (three-act musical), first produced in El Paso, Tex., at Chamizal National Theatre, 1974.
 * (Contributor) We Are Chicano, Washington Square Press, 1974.
 * Black Light (three-act), first produced in El Paso at Chamizal National Theatre, 1975.
 * El Hombre Cosmico (title means The Cosmic Man), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1975.
 * Sun Images (musical), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1976.
 * (Contributor) Roberto Garza, editor, Chicano Theatre (includes The Day of the Swallows), Notre Dame University Press, 1976.
 * Isabel and the Dancing Bear (three-act), first produced at Chamizal National Theatre, 1977.
 * Sor Juana and Other Plays, Bilingual Press, 1983 ISBN: 978-0916950330
 * Autumn Gold (three-act comedy)
 * Broken Moon (three-act play)
 * Los amores de Don Estafa (three-act comedy in English).

Additional Links

 * Estela Portillo Trambley Papers, 1969- from the Texas Archival Resources.