Consisting of the state of Texas’ most distinguished writers, members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) overwhelmingly approved for Severo Perez to be a member. The TIL is a distinguished honor society founded in 1936 that celebrates Texas literature and recognizes distinctive literary achievement. Read the full press release here.

Severo Perez was recently featured on the San Antonio news channel SA300. Watch the TV segment!

To read more or to purchase the paperback or Kindle edition, go to amazon.com. Acknowledgements This book is dedicated to Connie Gipson, who started me on this journey. Beginning as an interesting assignment to write and produce the documentary film, Willa Beatrice Brown: An American Aviator evolved into a mission to preserve a piece of history vanishing as I […]

Severo Perez is the writer, producer, or director (and often all three at once) of several well-respected and award-winning films including Seguin (1982), …and the earth did not swallow him (1995), Willa Brown: An American Aviator (2000), Carmen Lomas Garza: Looking Back ((2005), and Rudy Perez, Countdown: Reflections on a Life in Dance (2008).  Recently, […]

Odd Birds will be published by Wings Press, January 2019. If in a dream Cosimo Infante Cano found himself stranded in a strange American city far from the comforts of his apartment in Paris or his house
in Cuba, it would be the type of nightmare where he would awaken, grasping at the sheets, perspiring. And, there he stood on a bridge overlooking the banks of a narrow, winding river in a far-off American city, nearly
destitute and fully, terrifyingly wide-awake.