Casandra Lopez

Casandra López is a California Indian (Tongva/Luiseño) and Chicana writer who has received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf, Tin House and Indigenous Nations Poets. She’s the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet and has been selected for residencies with Storyknife, Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for the Arts and Macdowell. Her memoir-in-progress, A Few Notes on Grief, was granted a 2019 James W. Ray Venture Project Award. She is a Tongva Language Learner.

Pronouns: She/ Her

Languages: English, Tongva

Books

• Brother Bullet, University of Arizona Press 2019

• M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of New Mexico, 2012
• B.S. in Apparel Design, Cornell University
• Concentration in American Indian Studies, Cornel University