Lucrecia Guerrero

Lucrecia Guerrero was born in Ohio, grew up bilingual and bicultural on the U.S./Mexico border with a mother from Kentucky and a father from Mexico, but eventually returned to the Midwest where she has lived for many years. Guerrero’s short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and have been anthologized in Fantasmas, Best of the West, Not Like the Rest of Us, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21 st Century, and Indomitable / Indomables. Her first book, Chasing Shadows (Chronicle Books), is a collection of linked short stories. Her first novel, Tree of Sighs (Bilingual Press/ASU), received a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award and the Premio Aztlán Literary Award. Her newest novel is On the Mad River (Mouthfeel Press), and is set in a working class Midwestern town undergoing gentrification. Guerrero taught Spanish, English, and Creative Writing part-time at the university level and now enjoys facilitating creative writing workshops for all levels of writers.