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Janet Rodriguez

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Born

Tracy, CA, The United States

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Flannery O'Connor, Jhumpa Lahiri ...more

Member Since

March 2011

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Janet Rodriguez is an author, teacher, and editor living in Northern California. She is the author of the family memoir, Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations (Prickly Pear Press, 2022). In the United States, her work has appeared in Hobart, Pangyrus, Eclectica, The Rumpus, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, American River Review, and Calaveras Station. She is the winner of the Bazanella Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Literary Insight for Work in Translation Award, both from CSUS Sacramento in 2017. Her short stories, essays, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world. She holds an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is cu ...more