![]() ![]() While Marci navigates a tough terrain rife with violence, poverty, and drug abuse, she slowly comes to terms with her own maturing lesbian identity, which is in direct conflict with her devout Catholic upbringing. Booklist called it “ a robust addition to the growing body of Latino and Latina writing” while Sandra Cisneros proclaimed it “a story … at once heartbreaking and hilarious, beautifully told by a wise and wise-cracking young girl.” Set in 1960s California, What Night Brings focuses on young Marci Cruz - smart, sassy, and wise beyond her years - who is raised in an environment that is at once tender as it is hostile. Winner of the Miguel Marmol prize, awarded to a first novel or short story collection that focuses on human rights. In 2003, Curbstone Press published her first novel, What Night Brings. ![]() Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About won Trujillo a Lambda Literary Award as well as the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Editor of two seminal texts - Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, and Living Chicana Theory, both published by Third Woman Press - Trujillo’s contributions to the field of Chicana literary scholarship have garnered her a steady stream of admirers over the years, as well as some impressive accolades. SCHOLAR, UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR, AND NOVELIST Carla Trujillo is no stranger to hard work. ![]()
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