AUTHOR
Lorraine López, author of Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories, has a doctoral degree in English through the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia. Her first book was selected by Sandra Cisneros to win the inaugural Miguel Marmól Prize for Fiction. It also garnered the Independent Publishers Book Award for Multicultural Fiction and the Latino Book Award for Short Stories, awarded by the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. Her second book, Call Me Henri, a young adult novel, is forthcoming from Curbstone Press in 2006, and she has just finished co-editing a collection of critical articles on the work of Judith Ortiz Cofer. López was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Works by Lorraine López from Curbstone Press:
