Aurelia Lorca is the pen-name of a woman from the borderlands of the Monterey Peninsula who has been motionless in the twist of time. The title character of poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s last play, Dreams of My Cousin Aurelia, Aurelia Lorca was a character who lived in literature, and yet was supposed to receive a cathartic slap in the face to place her in the present. However, her creator was murdered by fascists at the start of the Civil War in 1936, and he could not finish the play. Aurelia Lorca has been reborn from the mind, heart, and pen of Nicole Henares- an American writer who is the grand-daughter of Andalusian immigrant cannery workers, and the daughter of civil rights workers. Her writing largely focuses on questions of ethnicity and identity and often reassembles narratives from histories which have been forgotten as a way to remember.
As Aurelia Lorca, Henares has published of two book length collections of poetry: Trills From A Numbed Tongue of Duhhh, and Putting On My Red Shoes And Dancing The Blues. Her articles, short stories, and poems have appeared throughout the small press in publications such as Words Dance, Red Fez, The Women’s International Perspective, The Last Woman’s Magazine, and The Newer York.
Nicole Henares has her BA in English from University of California at Davis, her M.Ed. in Cross Cultural Curriculum from National University, and her MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies. Henares is a high school English teacher in San Francisco. She lives in Half Moon Bay.
As Aurelia Lorca, Henares has published of two book length collections of poetry: Trills From A Numbed Tongue of Duhhh, and Putting On My Red Shoes And Dancing The Blues. Her articles, short stories, and poems have appeared throughout the small press in publications such as Words Dance, Red Fez, The Women’s International Perspective, The Last Woman’s Magazine, and The Newer York.
Nicole Henares has her BA in English from University of California at Davis, her M.Ed. in Cross Cultural Curriculum from National University, and her MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies. Henares is a high school English teacher in San Francisco. She lives in Half Moon Bay.
Photo from The Monterey Herald, 1937.
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