Huizache Women - Paperback

by Estella Gonzalez (Author)

Author Biography

ESTELLA GONZALEZ is the author of an acclaimed story collection, Chola Salvation (Arte Público Press, 2021). Her work has been widely anthologized, including in A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories (Arte Público Press, 2023) and Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press, 2014). She received Cornell University's Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing, a Pushcart Prize "Special Mention" and a "Reading Notable" for The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her story, "Chola Salvation," won first-place in the Pima Community College Martindale Literary Prize and her work has been named a finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, the James D. Houston Award for Western Literature and the Louise Meriwether Book Prize for a collection of short fiction. She received her BA in English from Northwestern University and her MFA in fiction from Cornell University. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.