Liza Monroy Explained

Liza Monroy
Birth Name:Liza Gennatiempo
Birth Date:November 12, 1979
Birth Place:Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation:Novelist, memoirist, essayist, journalist, educator
Education:Emerson College,
Columbia University School of the Arts

Liza Monroy (born November 12, 1979; née Liza Gennatiempo) is an American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and educator. Her debut novel, Mexican High (2008), was published by Spiegel and Grau.[1] [2]

Early life and education

Liza Monroy was born in 1979 in Seattle, Washington. Her parents divorced when she was young. Her mother Peggy was American Jewish and had worked for the United States Department of State;[3] and her father was Italian and had worked in the restaurant industry.

She has a BFA degree (2000) from Emerson College;[4] and a MFA degree in non-fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts. She also served as an instructor in the undergraduate writing program at Columbia University School of the Arts.[5]

Career

Her debut novel Mexican High (2008) is fictional and features a main character named Mila Marquez but the story is loosely based on Monroy's own experiences of living in Mexico City in 1993 and attending an elite private high school.[6]

Monroy released a memoir, The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend In America And What It Taught Us About Love (Soft Skull Press; 2014) about the three years she spent married to gay Middle Eastern man named Emir (from fictitiously entitled Emirstan) who might otherwise have been deported.[7] [8] [9] The book The Marriage Act explores human relationships, and addresses the concepts of marriage and love.[10]

Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times,[11] The New York Times Magazine, the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Village Voice, Jane, Self, Bust, and others.

She has served as a member of the Writing faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), and in lives in Santa Cruz, California.[12]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: April 28, 2008 . Mexican High by Liza Monroy, Spiegel & Grau, $21.95 (334pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52359-2 . 2022-09-11 . publishersweekly.com.
  2. Web site: Kaminski . Margot . 2008-06-24 . Fiction review: 'Mexican High' by Liza Monroy . 2022-09-11 . SFGATE . en-US.
  3. Web site: Carlson . Bob . Dorr . Wendy . 2013-02-06 . UnFictional: Cracking the Love Code . 2022-09-11 . KCRW . en.
  4. Web site: 2014-03-04 . Emerson well represented at writing conference . 2022-09-11 . Emerson Today . en-US.
  5. http://www.lizamonroy.com/about Liza Monroy: About
  6. News: 2008-06-06 . 'Passing' Along His Favorites . en-US . Wall Street Journal . 2022-09-11 . 0099-9660.
  7. News: Carnes. Aaron. Liza Monroy Raises Questions About Marriage. 14 February 2014. SantaCruz.com. 12 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140221184255/http://www.santacruz.com/news/2014/02/11/liza_monroy_raises_questions_about_marriage. 21 February 2014. dead.
  8. Web site: November 18, 2013 . The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love by Liza Monroy. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59376-536-1 . 2022-09-11 . publishersweekly.com.
  9. News: 2017-03-15 . The Modern Love Podcast: Malin Akerman Reads 'Elvis and My Husband Have Left the Building' . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-09-11 . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: 2014-02-11 . What Liza Monroy Proposed . 2022-09-11 . Interview Magazine . en-US.
  11. News: Monroy . Liza . 2006-11-26 . Ciao, Papa . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-09-11 . 0362-4331.
  12. Web site: 2016-12-18 . Santa Cruz County Stories: Formerly single writer Liza Monroy mines her own dating history for literature . 2022-09-11 . Santa Cruz Sentinel . en-US.
  13. Web site: August 15, 2016 . Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire: Essays by Liza Monroy. Soft Skull, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59376-649-8 . 2022-09-11 . publishersweekly.com.

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