About Me
I am a storyteller who was born and raised in the Arizona-Sonoran desertlands. I grew up in a richly layered Mexican Catholic lifeworld. It was a world where the ancestors were alive, along with the saints, the Lady, her child, and a father presence that my grandmother called Tatita Dios. It was also a world fraught with colonizing tensions--the assimilating pressures of the overculture, the repressive bindings of the church. I left home looking for answers to questions I didn't even know how to ask.
The writings I share here reflect the currents that bring me home with stories to tell. In many ways, the voices I share in these stories may be perplexing and disorienting to my family and the people from my hometown. I do not claim to represent them. However, these stories are written from a place of love meant to honor the ancestors, family, lands, cultures, and friends who have nourished the seeds of remembering in me.
The writings I share here reflect the currents that bring me home with stories to tell. In many ways, the voices I share in these stories may be perplexing and disorienting to my family and the people from my hometown. I do not claim to represent them. However, these stories are written from a place of love meant to honor the ancestors, family, lands, cultures, and friends who have nourished the seeds of remembering in me.
©2023 Alicia Enciso Litschi