liz gonzález
liz gonzález is the author of the historical creative nonfiction chapbook The Original OLG: San Bernardino’s First Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, forthcoming from Los Nietos Press; the multi-genre book Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (Los Nietos Press, 2018); and the poetry collection Beneath Bone (Manifest Press, 2000). Her creative nonfiction and poetry appear in various journals and anthologies, including Air/Light, Poets & Writers Magazine, San Bernardino Singing, The International Literary Quarterly, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. gonzález’s honors include the Arts Council for Long Beach Incite / Insight Award for her community work in North Long Beach through Uptown Word & Arts, a literary and arts series she co-founded with her spouse; an Arts Council for Long Beach Professional Artist Fellowship; an Elizabeth George Foundation Artistic Grant; and an Irvine Fellowship at the Lucas Artists Residency Program. In 2016, she founded Women's Write Inn, a rotating group of women poets and writers that meet regularly to write alone together and support each other. She teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. A fourth-generation Californian, gonzález lives in Long Beach.
