Mexican-born, South African-reared novelist and non-fiction writer; she is the 2015 winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for her novel, Faces in the Crowd. Author of "Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” and “Lost Children Archive.”
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