“A wonderfully written collection of short stories. . . . Each author is a female, award-winning writer who is either African, African American, Asian, Asian American, Native American, Latina, or Caribbean. . . . Each story offers a view of the world that will make you think about your own life and experiences, as well as a culture you may not know much about.”
—Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
“In this intriguing collection of 27 short stories, editors Ortiz & Spencer demonstrate how widely women writers of color range, with stories spanning mother-daughter relationships; forgiveness; the difficulty of being young, insecure, and in an interracial relationship; and issues of nationality.”
—Library Journal
“Demonstrating the exciting talent emerging from the fringes, this multicultural anthology addresses themes such as racial prejudice, media portrayals of beauty and family relationships.”
—Anita Little, Ms. Magazine
“Each candid, creative writer . . . sets taut dramas in motion in which archetypal human pursuits are cruelly and absurdly complicated by gender and race, adding up to a provocative and commanding collection.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
“All about Skin takes us above and below the skin of fascinating characters from the inner cities, immigrant enclaves, and academia of the United States, and from Africa to Asia, among many settings.”
—María Acosta Cruz, author of Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
“There is no other short story collection even similar to All about Skin; it takes an entirely different approach in that all of the contributors are literary-award-winning African, African American, Asian, Asian American, Native American, Latina, and Caribbean women writers.”
—Sandra Y. Govan, University of North Carolina–Charlotte
Title/Author: “Imagined Borders”/ Jina Ortiz
Publisher: The Caribbean Writer, University of the Virgin Islands, RR1, Box 10,000, Kingshill, St. Croix, USVI 00850, www.thecaribbeanwriter.org, 340-692-4152 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2011/ Vol. 25
ISBN: 0-9769273-6-5 # of pages: 2 Page # : 77-78
Title/Author: “Chocó, Colombia Flees Home After the Boyajá Massacre,” “The Question: Miss Colombia Speaks” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, Elena Minor, Editor and Publisher, P.O. Box 86146-0146, Los Angeles, CA 90086-0146, www.palabralitmag.com, 323-668-1864
Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2010/ Issue 6 ISSN: 1932-7374
# of pages: 3 Page #: 22-24
Title/Author: “Miss Peru’s Alcatraz Dance,” “Miss Dominican Republic at a Gala Dinner in Washington Heights”/ Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Green Mountains Review, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656, http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu, 802-635-1350
Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2010/ Vol. 23, No.1 ISSN: 0895-9307
# of pages: 3 Page #: 86-88
Title/Author: “Nidhe Israel Synagogue in Barbados” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Drash: Northwest Mosaic, Temple Beth Am, Beth Am Press, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle, WA 98115, www.templebetham.org, Tel: 206-525-0915
Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2010-5770/ Vol. IV
ISSN: 1935-1917 # of pages: 1 Page #: 63
Title/Author: “Miss Panamá 1980,” “ Esmeralda, Ecuador Watches The World Cup,” “Miss Ecuador 1996,” “Sketch of Miss Mexico 2002” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Afro-Hispanic Review, The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Vanderbilt University, PMB 351666, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, Tennessee 37235- 1666, USA, www.afrohispanicreview.com, 615-322-6930 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: Spring 2010/ Volume 29, Number 1
ISSN: 0278-8969 # of pages: 4 Page #: 221-224
Title/Author: “Mariá and José” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: The Worcester Review, 1 Ekman Street, Worcester, MA 01607, http://www.wreview.homestead.com, or http://www.theworcesterreview.org, 508-797-4770 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2009/Vol. 30, Numbers 1 and 2 ISSN: 8756-5277 # of pages: 3 Page #: 149-151
Title/Author: “Miss Botswana” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: The Worcester Review, 1 Ekman Street, Worcester, MA 01607, http://www.theworcesterreview.org, 508-797-4770 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2010 / Vol. 31, Numbers 1 and 2
ISSN: 8756-5277 # of pages: 1 Page #: 168
Title/Author: “Santo Domingo Blues” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: The Worcester Review, 1 Ekman Street, Worcester, MA 01607, http://www.theworcesterreview.org or http://www.geocites.com/wreview/, 508-797-4770 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2006/ Vol. 27- Numbers 1 and 2 ISSN: 8756-5277 # of pages: 1 Page #: 99
Title/Author: “Sugarcanes” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: The Caribbean Writer, University of the Virgin Islands, RR1, Box 10,000, Kingshill, St. Croix, USVI 00850, www.thecaribbeanwriter.org, 340-692-4152 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2006/ Vol. 20
ISBN: 0-9769273-1-4 # of pages: 2 Page #: 13-14
Title/Author: “In Coca Fields ” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: New Millennium Writings, P.O. Box 2463, Knoxville, TN 37901, www.newmillenniumwritings.com, 865-428-0389 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: 2006-07/ Issue 16
ISBN: 1-888338-23-7, ISSN: 1086-7678 # of pages: 1 Page #: 160
Title/Author: “Six Poems about The Little Island of Mine” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, Graduate Program in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, New York University, 19 University Place, New York, New York 10003, USA, http://wwww.nyu.edu/calabash/vol3no2/, 212-998-8770 Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: Fall-Winter 2005/ Vol. 3, Number 2 ISSN: 1531-6661 # of pages: 3 Page #: 70-72 URL: http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol3no2/0302070.pdf
Title/Author: “The Puerto Rican Bombshell”, “Miss France 1993” / Jina Ortiz
Publisher: Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, 38 Oakland Ave., Needham, MA 02492, http://solsticelitmag.org/fallwinter-20-11/, 617-875-2832
Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: Fall 2010 # of pages: 1 URL: http://solsticelitmag.org/the-puerto-rican-bombshell/ Publication Date/ Volume-Issue: Fall 2009 # of pages: 1 URL: http://solsticelitmag.org/miss-france-1993-1/
