I am a poet and a fiction writer. My first novel, Ocotillo Dreams, will be published this Summer, Bilingual Press 2011.
My poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown, won Kulupi Press' Sense of Place 2009 competition.
Read more about my writing at www.melindaplacio.com.
twitter: LaMelinda
I am a blogger with La Bloga.

Ocotillo Dreams
Folsom Lockdown
I've contributed to Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, Poets of the American West: An Anthology of Eleven Western States, San Diego Poetry Annual, the Maple Leaf Rag III, the Maple Leaf Rag IV, Anne-thology, and the forthcoming, Southern Poetry Anthology IV.

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