liz gonzález, a fourth generation So Cal native, grew up sixty miles east of Los Angeles in Rialto, California. She earned her M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing at Mills College in 1999 and served as the 1999/2000 Writer in Residence at the Phoenix College Creative Writing Program. Currently, liz lives and writes in Long Beach, California.

liz’s poetry, fiction and memoirs will soon appear in or have appeared in journals and periodicals such as BorderSenses, Cooweescoowe, Heliotrope, Luna, Brújula/Compass, Cider Press Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, and New Delta Review, and in anthologies such as Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles, So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets, and Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. She is the author of the limited edition chapbook Beneath Bone, published by Manifest Press.

Her recent awards include the Arts Council for Long Beach's 2005 Professional Artist Fellowship, a fiction writers grant from The Elizabeth George Foundation, and a residency at Hedgebrook: A Retreat for Women Writers.

Since 1993, liz has conducted creative writing workshops, organized literary readings, and presented her poetry, fiction and memoirs in universities, colleges, libraries, high schools, community centers, and other venues. She is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshop, a master-level workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros, and the assistant editor of the online magazine Speechless the Magazine.

She teaches writing at Long Beach City College, literature at local universities, and creative writing at community centers, in private workshops, and through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

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