 Available spring, 2016, University of New Mexico Press.
"The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. She writes about her parents' appliance store and how she escaped from it, the bowling alley that provided refuge, and the strange and beautiful things she sees while riding her bike in the early mornings. She remembers fighting for equal rights for girls as a sixth grader, calling the cops when her parents fought, and listening with her mother to Helen Reddy's 'I Am Woman,' The soundtrack of her parents' divorce. Poignant, serious, and funny, Morales' book is both a coming-of-age story and an exploration of how a writer discovers her voice." |
photo credit: Adrianne Mathiowetz
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Reviews/Related Articles |
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Los Angeles Review of Books, "What Makes a Memory" by Alex Espinosa
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Bustle.com, "9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory" by Joanna Novak
The Valley Citizen, "The Girl From Our Town: Writer Supreme, Angela Morales," by Eric Caine
"10 Of April 2016's Best Books That Will Make Your Bookshelf Bloom" by Melissa Ragsdale (bustle.com)
Other Publications
`Essays:
"Riding in the Dark." River Teeth, Summer, 2011. "Nine Days of Ruth." Arts and Letters, 2011. "Skin and Toes, Ears and Hair." Under the Sun, 2011 "Ode and Apology to Dogs I've Loved." The Los Angeles Review, 2011 and The Low Valley Review, 2015. "Chief Little Feather, Where are You?" Southern Review, Autumn 2011. "The Girls in My Town." Southwest Review, 2012 "Gunslinging." The Baltimore Review, 2012. "In Defense of the Rat." Literary Mama, 2012 "One Small Step." The Harvard Review, Spring 2012 "The Burrito: A Brief History." Hobart Online. May 2014. "Bloodyfeathers, R.I.P." The Chattahoochee Review. Fall 2014 (forthcoming) "The Big Divorce." Winter, 2014. 1966: Journal of Creative Nonfiction "18 Meditations from Denali." NPS Denali. 2015. "Ode to a Red Rabbit." The Pinch, 2016. "Nature Camp for Disadvantaged Youth, circa 1978." Indianola Review, 2016. "Alive Girl Walking," Water~Stone Review, Winter 2018 "Mammalian," forthcoming, War Literature, and the Arts "Junior High Diary, 1980," forthcoming, The Normal School Anthologies: "The Girls in My Town." California Prose Directory: New Writing From the Golden State, 2013. Outpost 19 press. "The Girls in My Town." Best American Essays, 2013, ed. by Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. "Gunslinging."Creating Nonfiction, ed. Jen Hirt and Erin Murphy. SUNY press (forthcoming 2016) Podcast: "Man's Best Friend" (reading "An Elegy and Apology to Dogs I've Loved" for the Los Angeles Review) |
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Awards/Residencies:
Yaddo, January 2018 Macdowell Colony, January 2016 River Teeth Book Prize 2015, The Girls in My Town, essay collection --San Francisco Foundation's James Phelan prize for nonfiction manuscript-in-progress, Exhuming Abuelita, a family memoir --Pushcart Nomination, "Alive Girl Walking, 2017 --Pushcart Nomination, "Riding in the Dark" 2012 --Pushcart Nomination, "Bloodyfeathers R.I.P." 2014 --Denali National Park, Alaska, writer-in-residence. July, 2014. |
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Interviews:
--Contributor Spotlight: Chattahoochee Review --Interview: Denali National Park with Ranger Cassie Branst in which I discuss my 10 day stay in the East Fork Cabin, wildlife encounters, and writing. |
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