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Josefina López, whose first play was produced when she was eighteen, has become one of the most widely produced Latina playwrights in the United States. Real Women Have Curves won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2002. Josefina moved to Los Angeles when she was five, and attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Lopez then moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts to attend Wellesley College. She received an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the UCLA Film and Television Department and teaches playwriting and screenwriting to local youth at her CASA 0101 theatre art space in Boyle Heights.
Bárbara Renaud González says of herself: “I am a writer, who has nothing but a pen, books and cats, a dangerous combination.” Her essays/articles have appeared in diverse anthologies and magazines, including The Nation; The Progressive; Ms. Magazine; The Los Angeles Times, and many others.
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children. She studied at Loyola University of Chicago (B.A. English 1976) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. Creative Writing 1978). She’s worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the schools where she taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her book, The House on Mango Street, published in 1984, is required reading in schools across the country.
