The Machine Hosted by Hugo Machuca

Join Hugo as he talks to Melinda Palacio bout her book Folsom Lockdown Melinda Palacio grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Santa Barbara, where she is an editor for Ink Byte, an online magazine for writers. She holds two degrees in Comparative Literature, a B.A. from Berkeley and an M.A. from UC Santa Cruz. Melinda is a 2007 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellow. Her poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown, won Kulupi’s 2009 Sense of Place cash prize and publication, Spring 2010. Her work has been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies, including the Arizona Republic, BorderSenses, the East Valley and Scottsdale Tribune, Phoenix Magazine, Sage Trail Poetry Magazine, Buffalo Carp, Black Renaissance Noire, the Valley Voice, Palabra, Poets and Artists, the Maple Leaf Rag III, and Latinos in Lotus Land: an Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature. Her first novel, Ocotillo Dreams, will be published by Arizona State University’s Bilingual Review Press, Fall 2010.