Lolita Hernandez

Lolita Hernandez is the author of two collections of short stories: Making Callaloo in Detroit, a 2015 Notable Book, and Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award. She also is the author of two chapbook collections of poems: Quiet Battles and snakecrossing. She is a 2012 Kresge Literary Arts fellow.

Her poetry and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of literary publications. After over thirty three years as a UAW worker at General Motors, she now teaches in the Creative writing Department of the University of Michigan Residential College.

 

For more about Lolita and her works, go to http://www.lolitahernandez.com/about