Lorinda Toledo

Lorinda Toledo was 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 received an honorable mention in CRAFT's First Chapters Contest. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Mississippi Review, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in Literature with creative dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2019. While there, her writing and research were supported by multiple awards, including a Black Mountain Institute fellowship. She is a past fiction editor at Witness literary magazine, and teaches writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.