Marytza K. Rubio

Marytza K. Rubio is a writer from Santa Ana, California. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is the founder of Makara Center for the Arts, a nonprofit library & art center in her hometown. Her work has been appeared in Los Angeles Times, Slice Magazine, and The Normal School; as well as anthologies Choose Wisely and Exigencies. Marytza is a 2008 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, the 2010 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Fiction, and a 2012 VONA alum.