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Judith Ortiz Cofer (built-in in 1952) is a Puerto Rican writer. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on Feb 24, 1952. She moved to Paterson, New Jersey with her family in 1956. They often fabricated back-and-forth trips between Paterson and Hormigueros. In 1967,

Judith Ortiz Cofer (born in 1952) is a Puerto Rican writer. Her piece of work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on February 24, 1952. She moved to Paterson, New Jersey with her family unit in 1956. They oft made back-and-forth trips between Paterson and Hormigueros. In 1967, her family unit moved to Augusta, Georgia, where she attended Butler High School. Ortiz Cofer received a B.A. in English from Augusta Higher, and subsequently an M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University.

Ortiz Cofer's piece of work can largely be classified as creative nonfiction. Her narrative self is strongly influenced by oral storytelling, which was inspired past her grandmother, an able storyteller in the tradition of teaching through storytelling amidst Puerto Rican women. Ortiz Cofer's autobiographical work oftentimes focuses on her attempts at negotiating her life betwixt two cultures, American and Puerto Rican, and how this procedure informs her sensibilities as a writer. Her piece of work too explores such subjects equally racism and sexism in American culture, machismo and female person empowerment in Puerto Rican culture, and the challenges diasporic immigrants face in a new culture. Among Ortiz Cofer's more well known essays are "The Story of My Body" and "The Myth of the Latin Woman," both reprinted in The Latin Deli.

In 1984, Ortiz Cofer joined the kinesthesia of the University of Georgia, where she is currently Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing. In April 2010, Ortiz Cofer was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

In 1994, she became the first Hispanic to win the O. Henry Prize for her story "The Latin Deli". In 1996, Ortiz Cofer and illustrator Susan Guevara became the kickoff recipients of the Pura Belpre Laurels for Hispanic children's literature.

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