Gina Maria Balibrera Amyx is a writer from San Francisco. She's at work on a novel about 1930s El Salvador, a volcano, a massacre, and Latinas in Hollywood, and she also teaches writing and sells books in Ann Arbor, MI. Gina completed her MFA at the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, and she's received grants from the Gould Center for the Humanities and the Rackham Institute, as well as a Tyson Award. Her work has been published on the Ploughshares website, on The Hairpin, in Belletrist Coterie, and the Michigan Quarterly Review website.

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