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Early Life/Biography
Carla Trujillo was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico and raised in California. She earned her B.S. in Human Development from the University of California, Davis and attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.[1]
Career/Writing
Trujillo has contributed to the field of Chicana literary scholarship as evidenced by her editing of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About published in 1991 by Third Woman Press[2] and Living Chicana Theory published in 1998 also by Third Woman Press.[3] Influenced by her own lesbian identity, Trujillo conceptualized and edited the first volume because "as a Chicana lesbian" she "wanted to see more about the intricacies and specifics of lesbianism and our culture, our family, mixed-race relationships and more."[4] In 1992, Chicana Lesbians received the Lambda Literary Award for the best Lesbian Anthology.[5] In 2003, Trujillo authored her first novel entitled What Night Brings and published it with Curbstone Press. What Night Brings focuses on the Chicana lesbian character, Marci Cruz, and her upbringing in a conservative Catholic home. Trujillo published her second novel, Faith and Fat Chances, two years later.[6]
- ^ Valenzuela, Tony. "Carla Trujillo and David McConnell Join Lambda Literary Foundation's Board of Trustees". Lambda Literary. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ^ Trujillo, Carla (1991). Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. Berkeley: Third Woman Press.
- ^ Trujillo, Carla (1998). Living Chicana Theory. Berkeley, Calif.: Third Woman Press.
- ^ Trujillo, Carla (1991). Chicana Lesbians. Berkeley, Calif.: Third Woman Press. pp. ix.
- ^ "Fourth Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. July 13, 1992.
- ^ Espinoza, Alex. "Faith and Fat Chances: An Interview with Carla Trujillo". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved January 10, 2017.