Judy Juanita

Judy Juanita’s poetry collection, MANHATTAN MY ASS, YOU’RE IN OAKLAND, won the 2021 American Book Award. Her short story collection, THE HIGH PRICE OF FREEWAYS, won the Tartt Fiction Prize 2021 and will be published this July by the University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press. Her debut novel, VIRGIN SOUL, was published by Viking in 2013. She has taught writing at Laney College since 1993.