About: Sharon Doubiago
Sharon Doubiago’s memoir, My Father’s Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, Volume One was a finalist in the Northern California Book Awards in Creative Non Fiction, 2010 and My Father’s Love, Volume Two: The Legacy appeared in 2011 (Wild Ocean Press). She has written two dozen books of poetry and prose, most notably the epic poem Hard Country (West End Press); the booklength poem South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh), which was nominated twice for the National Book Award; and the story collections, El Niño (Lost Roads Press); and The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Graywolf Press), which was selected to the Oregon Culture Heritage list: Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000.
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“I finally got my birth certificate.” Even before we sat on the bench in that small glass waiting room, he told me that. As if even back then we knew this was the important issue, even back then we were trying to know. “I’m a Soboba.” We were still standing staring at each other. I could not believe my ears. READ MORE