Grace & Gumption: The Women of El Paso Tapa dura - 2011

MARCIA HATFIELD DAUDISTEL is the editor, most recently of Literary El Paso, published by TCU Press in 2009. As the former associate director of Texas Western Press, she helped publish over seventy books and established the bilingual imprint Frontera Books. Daudistel is the recently appointed West Texas/Trans Pecos editor of Texas Books in Review. She is on the advisory committee of the Made in Texas: Cultivating Teachers to Engage Mexican American Literature in Middle and High School Classrooms project. She was a presenter at the 2009 Texas Book Festival and was also a member of the first Texas Book Festival on the Road committee. Daudistel is a member of the Friends of the University of Texas at El Paso Library Board and a 2009 Hertzog Award committee judge. She has been chosen as a presenter at the March 2010 convention of the Texas Historical Society. Daudistel has lived in El Paso for twenty-six years.