Hello! I’m Flora Gamez Grateron, a Texas native, and I have been writing most of my life. Born the seventh child of nine, my stories and poems reflect the complexity and rewards of living within a large Mexican-American family rich in culture and tradition. My work has been published in The Blue Guitar, an arts and literary magazine of the Arizona Consortium for the Arts, and in La Bloga, a Flor y Canto out of Los Angeles speaking out on immigration issues. The Corrido on my then 89-year-old dad (who passed away at 102 years old on December 13, 2023) was one of the winners at the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival in 2010. I have been published in the Oasis Journal of 2010. My work was also published in an Anthology titled Our Spirit, Our Reality with the Sowing the Seeds writers’ group. I created and belong to a women’s writers’ group in Tucson named Rincon Writers, a group that has been meeting for over a decade. I retired in November 2020 as an educator in the Sunnyside Unified School District as a middle school teacher. I have four awesome children and live in Tucson, Arizona. My book Through the Door, Cuentos de Casa was published in July 2023 and my second book Open Doors, Cuentos de Familia is in publication and coming out soon.