Lorinda Toledo

Lorinda Toledo (she/her) is a Latina feminist writer born and raised in New Mexico, while Los Angeles has been her home for more than a decade. Her novel-in-progress was named first-runner up for the 2019 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and she is currently revising her completed novel manuscript with literary agent Julia Masnik at Watkins/Loomis. A stand-alone excerpt was published in the Mississippi Review and her short fiction has been published in The Normal School, among others. She earned a PhD in literature from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where her writing was supported by multiple awards including the Barrick Graduate Fellowship and a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fellowship. She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles (Scirocco cohort). Most recently, she taught composition at Otis College of Art and Design, where she led tutoring support for writing, academic, and digital arts, and developed a coaching program to help creatives cultivate sustainable practice.