Julie Cardenas
Phone: 619•644•7486
E-mail: julie.cardenas@gcccd.edu
Instructor Website: www.grossmont.edu/julie.cardenas/
A native of Sacramento, Julie Cardenas has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and
Spanish from California State University, Sacramento and a Masters Degree in English
from the University of San Diego. Prior to teaching, she worked in the California
Governor’s Office of Community Relations for two years. Her writing career includes the
publication of news and feature articles, poetry, and short fiction. Additionally, she has
edited a variety of professional newsletters and trade journals, and she served as the
faculty advisor of a college newspaper for two years before coming to Grossmont. She
has taught Creative Writing for five years and is the faculty advisor of the campus
literary magazine Acorn Review.
QUOTABLES
Across the plaza men clink wine bottles
and laugh boisterously.
They stand, arms linked,
then blend into a tableau of red and white
on the next street
where clusters of men, women and children
press forward,
their voices shrill,
a clamor of languages.
(from "Pamplona")
ON WRITING: "Writing creatively is an exciting, worthwhile experience. You should
relax, have a good time, and prepare to trust your imagination as an indispensable and
trustworthy friend."
Link to Julie Cardenas's website: http://www.grossmont.edu/julie.cardenas/
Poetry
Pamplona
Midnight Buffet
Fiction
The Enlightenment
fiction on this page, facsimiled from
Cowles Mountain Journal 5 (1992): 16-17.
© Juliana Cardenas
