Teresa Palomo Acosta crafts poetry and prose drawing from her lived experiences as a Mexican American woman from Texas. Through her work, such as the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts," she elevates the domestic Mexican American woman, a group often underrepresented in literature and poetry. Beyond her creative writing, Acosta is also a historian whose publications illuminate the previously uncelebrated contributions of Mexican American women to Texas history. Her style is intimate and reverent, focusing on family, tradition, and the strength of mothers and grandmothers.
This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta - poet, historian, author, and activist - spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present.