Rose Mary Salum
# Rose Mary Salum

Rose Mary Salum has authored 9 books. She is the founder of the award winning bilingual magazine Literal Magazine. She is also the founder of Literal Publishing, a bilingual publisher house. She has taught as a visiting professor at Universidad de Iowa, Rice University, and Saint Thomas University.She is a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Her essays and fiction are included in an array of anthologies: Diáspora (Vaso Roto, 2017), Lados B, Narrativa de alto riesgo (Nitro Press, 2016), The Body Subject & Subjected (Sussex Academy Press, 2015), Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors (Hostos Review, 2015), Cruce de fronteras: Antología de escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos (SubUrbano, 2013), Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos (Dislocados, 2012), Raíces latinas, narradores y poetas inmigrantes (Vagón azul, 2012), America nuestra: antología de narrativa en español en Estados Unidos (Linkgua, 2011), Professions (MLA, 2009), among others. Her books have been translated to Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and English.

## Books

* Donde el río se toca (Sudaquia, 2022)
* Otras lunas (Libros del sargento, 2022)
* Tres semillas de granada. Ensayos desde el inframundo (Vaso Roto, 2020)
* Una de ellas (Dislocados, 2020)
* The Water That Rocks the Silence (Forthcoming)
* El agua que mece el silencio (Vaso Roto, 2015)
* Delta de las arenas, cuentos árabes, cuentos judíos (Literal Publishing, 2013)
* Almalafa y Caligrafía, Literatura de origen árabe en América Latina (Hostos Review)
* Spaces in Between (2006)
* Entre los espacios (Tierra Firme, 2004)

## Awards and recognition

* Florida Book Awards (2020, Bronze Medal)
* Top Ten Houston Women (2018)
* Premio Panamericano Carlos Montemayor (2017)
* International Latino Book Award (2016)
* Top 35 Latinos
* International Latino Book Award (2014),
* [Mujeres Destacadas Award (2014)
* Author of the Year 2008 by the Hispanic Book Festival (2018),
* Classical Award by Saint Thomas University (2006),
* A Recognition by the Congress of the United States (2005)
* A Runner up for the PEN America’s Nora Magid Award
