tina ontiveros

tina ontiveros grew up below the poverty line and went to community college. As a writer and a teacher, her work explores class, generational hardship, and marginalization of the poor. Her memoir, rough house, was a PNBA Bestseller, a national Indie Next Pick, an Oregon Book Award finalist, and 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award winner. tina teaches writing and literature at Columbia Gorge Community College.