{"id":53,"name":"B\u00e1rbara Renauld Gonzalez","url":"","description":"B\u00e1rbara Renauld Gonzalez is a writer from Texas, the oldest of eight children. Her father was a sharecropper, King Ranch refugee, and her mother was born in Mexico, a Mexican Revolution revolutionary. Her novel, <i>Golondrina, why did you leave me?<\/i>, was the first Chicana novel published by the University of Texas Press. She is also the author of <i>The Boy Made of Lightning,<\/i> an interactive children\u2019s book on the life of the late, great, voting rights activist, Willie Vel\u00e1squez. She is currently developing <i>The (S)Hero\u2019s Journey,<\/i> a series of children\u2019s books about the marginalized (s)heroes of Texas, and finishing her first Tex-Mex adult fairy tale.","link":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/author\/barbarargonzalez\/","slug":"barbarargonzalez","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-24x24.jpeg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-48x48.jpeg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-96x96.jpeg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":52649,"full":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez.jpeg","192":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-192x192.jpeg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-96x96.jpeg","64":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-64x64.jpeg","32":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-32x32.jpeg","24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-24x24.jpeg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Barbara-Renaud-Gonzalez-48x48.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}