Loida Casares Ruiz

Last seen: 05/10/2008

 

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Biography

Loida Casares Ruiz grew up in Northeast Houston. She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Minor in English. She received a Master of Arts in Communication in 2001. She works in advertising by day and is a mother, wife, and writer by night. She has also read at Nuestra Palabra, Latinos Having Their Say, a local literary group, and has appeared on their radio program on KTRU, Radio Pacifica. She has published two short stories on The Houston Institute for Culture website and she is has written a novel about three cousins and their mothers. According to The Houston Institute for Culture, "Ruiz draws upon her family's history and experiences in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and in Houston. Her compelling narratives capture the tradition of oral history through the types of accounts and yarns that are passed down to generations. She focuses on ways people relate, and on moments of epiphany."