Degrees

Ph.D English, University of Georgia
M.A. University of Georgia
B.A. California State University, Northridge

Research Area

Contemporary American literature
Latino literature
Fiction writing

Current Research

Contemporary American short fiction

Current Courses

Intermediate Fiction Workshop
Literature and Cultural Analysis: Latino Literature

Publications

Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories (Curbstone Press, 2002)
Call Me Henri (Curbstone Press, April 2006)
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters (Grand Central, October 2008)
An Angle of Vision: Women Writers and Their Poor and Working-Class Roots (University of Michigan Press, December 2009)
Homicide Survivors Picnic (BkMk Press, September 2009)

Biography

Lorraine M. López teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and she is an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Voices of Mexico, CrazyHorse, Image, Cimarron Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly/Narrative Magazine, and Latino Boom. Her short story collection, Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories (Curbstone Press, 2002) won the inaugural Miguel Marmól prize for fiction. Her second book, Call Me Henri (Curbstone Press 2006) was awarded the Paterson Prize for Young Adult Literature, and her novel, The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters, released in October of 2008 from Grand Central Press, is a Borders/Las Comadres Selection for the month of November. López’s short story collection, Homicide Survivors Picnic, is due out from BkMk Press in September 2009, and she has edited a collection of essays titled An Angle of Vision: Women Writers Discuss Their Poor Or Working Class Roots that is due out in December from the University of Michigan Press.