Patricia Santana

Life

She is the eighth of nine children of Mexican immigrants. Her parents are from El Grullo, Jalisco.

She graduated from University of California, San Diego, and from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

She is a Spanish instructor at Cuyamaca Community College and is also an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches creative writing.

She is the mother of Deborah and Isaac.

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