Norma Liliana Valdez is the author of the chapbook Preparing the Body (YesYes Books, 2019). A member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop and a CantoMundo fellow, her work appears in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, PANK Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and the anthology Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, among others. Norma earned a BA in Psychology, an MS in Counseling, and a graduate certificate in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Extension Writing Program and has been awarded writing residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, Under the Volcano, Community of Writers, and the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices), in addition to others. Norma is a founding member of the Xingona Collective, a Bay Area women's writing group whose mission is to nurture a sustaining writing practice for its members through mutual encouragement and writing retreats.

Other poems on the web by Norma Liliana Valdez:
"Your Birth"
"your life or hers"
"You’ll Be Given Love"
Three poems
"Blood Sport"

*Norma Liliana Valdez's Website.

*Norma Liliana Valdez on Twitter.