Angela Morales
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PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award
Angela Morales | |
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| Born | 1966 Los Angeles |
| Genre | essay |
| Notable awards | River Teeth Book Prize PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award |
Angela Morales (born 1966, Los Angeles) is an American essayist, writer, and educator.
She is the author of The Girls In My Town: Essays, published by the University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Her essays appear in River Teeth, The Baltimore Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Pinch, Hobart, Under the Sun, The Indianola Review,[1] and 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, and other magazines.
Morales grew up in San Gabriel, California. Many of her autobiographical essays describe growing up in Southern California during the 1970s. Some of the themes in her writing include motherhood, violence, female coming-of-age, and Mexican American cultural identity. A graduate of the University of California, Davis and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, Morales currently teaches English at Glendale Community College in Southern California. She lives in Pasadena, California with her husband Patrick Conyers and their children, Mira and Leo.
