Move over fanboys! XOCHITL-JULISA BERMEJO hosts an all-female lineup of writers showing off their superhuman strengths in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. The kickass justice league includes:JEANNINE HALL GAILEY, CONSUELO FLORES, RAMONA PILAR GONZALES, andANGELA BROMMEL.
JEANNINE HALL GAILEY is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006) and the upcoming She Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011.) Her poems have been featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily, and were included in 2007's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She teaches part-time at National University's MFA program and volunteers for Crab Creek Review. Please follow the link to read an interview with the author in the Public Republic.
From East Los Angeles, the last of ten children, CONSUELO FLORES received her MFA from Antioch University in CFN and has brought her work to galleries, museums as well as cultural spaces since the 1980's. She believes in empowering and mentoring women through support, education, and opportunity. Her superhero frees women trapped in bad marriages by religion.
RAMONA PILAR GONZALES is a writer/performer and native Californian. She has written on music, film, and theater for LatinoLA.com, CreepyLA.com, Clamor Magazine, the Highland Park News and more. Ramona has written and produced several short plays and films and her monologue show, Del Plato a la Boca, El Ritmo te Toca, received a grant from La Plaza de Cultura y Artes Foundation. She is a founding member of Tongue in Chicana, which wrote and produced the critically acclaimed productionCarnivale of the Unassuming and Heart on a Wire. She has performed with Cornerstone Theater Company, the Denver Center Theater, Casa 0101, East Los Angeles Repertory Theater, and the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts. Ramona holds a B.A. in Film and Cultural representation from UC Davis and is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles.
ANGELA BROMMEL is a Nevada-writer with Iowa roots. She teaches Humanities and Women’s Studies at Nevada State College. Her work can be found at Sweet: A Literary Confection and Writers at Work. She read her first graphic novel after a cute barristo started serving her coffee every morning in a Wonder Woman-mug with a stack of graphic novels.
