Janet Rodriguez

Janet Rodriguez is an author, teacher, and editor living in Northern California. In the United States, her work has appeared in Eclectica, The Rumpus, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, Salon.com, American River Review, and Calaveras Station. She is the winner of the Bazanella Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Literary Insight for Work in Translation Award, both from CSUS Sacramento in 2017. Rodriguez has also co-authored two memoirs, published in South Africa. Her short stories, essays, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world. She has an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @brazenprincess