Evangelina Vigil-Piñón (born November 29, 1949) is a Chicanapoet, children's book author, director,^[1] translator, and television personality.

Her mother's family emigrated to Texas in the early 1900s from Parras, Mexico. As a child, Vigil-Piñón lived with her maternal grandmother.^[1] Her interest in literature started when she was a little girl. As a sixth grader, her principal sent her to the Inman Christian Center, a private art school in San Antonio, where she was in attendance with people in their twenties.^[1] Vigil-Piñón earned a scholarship for business administration and started school atPrairie View A&M University.She graduated from theUniversity of Houston.^{[citation needed][2]}She studied atSt. Mary's University, and theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio.She was the assistant editor ofAmericas Review.^[2]She teaches Mexican American and U.S. Hispanic literature as an adjunct lecturer^[3] at theUniversity of Houston.^[4] She is currently a television journalist extensively involved in community affairs with ABC-KTRK TV Channel 13 in Houston, Texas.^[5] MarriedMark Anthony Piñón^[6] in 1983; they had a son,Marc-Antony Piñón,^[7] in 1984.^[8]

• 1983American Book Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellow

• Nade y Nade, M&A Editions, 1978
• Thirty an' Seen a Lot. Arte Público Press. 1982.ISBN 978-0-934770-13-2.
• The Computer is Down. Arte Publico Press. 1987.ISBN 978-0-934770-32-3.
• Marina's Muumuu / El muumuu de Marina. Illustrator Pablo Torrecilla. Arte Público Press. 2001.ISBN 978-1-55885-350-8.

• Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, ed. (1987).Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Woman Write. Arte Público Press.ISBN 978-0-934770-27-9.
• Julián Olivares; Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, eds. (1993).Decade II: an anniversary anthology. Arte Publico Press.ISBN 978-1-55885-062-0.

• Tomás Rivera (1995).Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him. Arte Público Press.ISBN 978-1-55885-083-5.
• Tito Campos (2001).Muffler man. Translator Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Illustrator Lamberto Alvarez. Arte Publico Press.ISBN 978-1-55885-318-8.

• Roberta Fernández, ed. (1994).In other words: literature by Latinas of the United States. Arte Publico Press. p. 233.ISBN 978-1-55885-110-8.Evangelina Vigil pinon.

• Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Evangelina Vigil-Piñón. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

• 1949 births
• Writers from Houston
• Writers from San Antonio
• University of Houston faculty
• Living people
• American women poets
• American Book Award winners
• American writers of Mexican descent
• American women academics
• 21st-century American women

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