Gwendolyn Zepeda Reviews

Gwendolyn Zepeda attended the University of Texas in Austin and was born in Houston, Texas in 1971. She started her writing career on the net in 1997, with her long-running site gwendolynzepeda.com and as one of the founding writers of entertainment site Television Without Pity. Her first book was a short-story collection called To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him (Arte Público Press, 2004).

Zepeda's first children's book, Growing Up with Tamales (Piñata Publications) is a 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title. Her first publication, Houston, we've got a Problema (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) won praise from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist because of its comedy and upbeat story.

A two-time Houston Arts Alliance literary fellowship winner along with award-winning poet, Zepeda frequently lectures at universities all over Texas.

Her newest books include the following children's novel - Sunflowers (Piñata Books, 2009) - and a new novel from Grand Central Publishing known as Lone Star Legend.

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