Liza Monroy is the author of the debut novel, Mexican High, published by Spiegel & Grau. 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 lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York, where she is currently at work on a memoir. Liza teaches academic and creative writing at Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in Nonfiction, UCLA Extension, and Mediabistro.

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