EMMY AWARD WINNING Marcos McPeek Villatoro is the author of five novels, two collections of poetry and a memoir. His Romilia Chacón crime fiction books have won national acclaim (named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times) and are also published in Germany, Japan, Russia and Brazil.

Marcos holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Writing at Mount St. Mary's College. He has performed on NPR and appears regularly on KCET:PBS Television in Los Angeles. Recently he returned from his other home country of El Salvador, where he shot the documentary TAMALE ROAD.

Marcos teaches and lectures on poetry, fiction, nonfiction, Latino and Appalachian worlds, and tamales. His books are taught in colleges and high schools across the country.

Marcos, his wife and four kids live in Los Angeles.

Marcos Receives a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award

On August 29, 2009, Marcos won the Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Best Non-News Writer. He won for his work that he's done for KCET Television's "SoCal Connected," a prime time news show that focuses on events that effect southern California.

Marcos and his wife Michelle attended the gala event, along with all the crew of the show: Val Zavala, Bret Marcus, and others. SoCal Connected walked home that night with 6 Emmy wins.

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Marcos appears on KCET's "SoCal Connected," hosted by Val Zavala. Marcos tells stories about everything from the elections to the economy to secret Salvadoran Tamale recipes.

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Marcos Villatoro is the author of five novels, two collections of poetry and a memoir set in Guatemala. His Romilia Chacón crime fiction books have won national acclaim and are published in five countries.

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