Maria Venegas is an American writer, who was born in Mexico. She immigrated to the United States at the age of four.[1] She graduated from Hunter College with an MFA in creative writing, where she was a Hertog Fellow [2] for Frank McCourt.[2] She currently lives in New York City.[1]

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Her memoir Bulletproof Vest received positive reviews from The New York Times,[3] NPR,[4] and Chicago Tribune.[5]

Works

• Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter (2014).[6]

She has also written short stories which have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, and Ploughshares.[7]

References

External links

• Official website

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