Susan Matt is an historian of the emotions, and a faculty member in the Department of History, at Weber State. She’s author of Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930 (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Homesickness: An American History (Oxford University Press). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, among other places.
Open to any author writing in English about the Chicanx/Latinx experience, the Rivera Book Prize is committed to the discovery and fostering of extraordinary writing by a first-time or early career author whose work examines the long and varied contributions of Chicanx/Latinx in the US. The Rivera Book Prize aims to provide a platform that showcases the emerging literary talent of the Chicanx/Latinx community, to cultivate the next generation of Chicanx/Latinx writers, and to continue the rich literary memory of Tomás Rivera, Chicano author, poet, activist, and educator.
Entry Fee: $35. Entry fees are non-refundable.
