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Melinda Palacio was raised in South-Central Los Angeles. She holds two degrees in Comparative Literature--a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a M.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes a column for "La Bloga." She is a 2007 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow and a 2009 poetry alum of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her poetry chapbook "Folsom Lockdown" (2009) is a Sense of Place winner. In 2011, Melinda published her debut novel, "Ocotillo Dreams." "How Fire Is A Story, Waiting" is her first full-length poetry book. |
