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About Viola Canales
- Viola Canales (born 21 April 1957) is an American writer, professor, and former attorney.
- She has published a short story collection, Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales (2001), and a novel, The Tequila Worm (2005) for which she won the Pura Belpré Award in 2006.
- She has also written a bilingual collection of poems, The Little Devil and the Rose: LoterÃa Poems / El diablito y la rosa: Poemas de la loterÃa (2014).
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