Liza Monroy lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, Mexican High was published by Spiegel & Grau and she is currently at work on a memoir. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Women’s Health, Everyday With Rachael Ray, The Village Voice, Jane, Poets & Writers, Self, Bust and other publications. Her writing has also appeared in anthologies: One Big Happy Family, edited by Rebecca Walker, The New York Times’ Best of Modern Love, the travelogues Mexico, A Love Story and Greece, A Love Story from Seal Press, Nerve.com’s Sex Advice From… and others. She has taught essay writing at Columbia University, where she is an MFA candidate, and at Mediabistro.

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