Suzanne LaFetra

Suzanne LaFetra is an award winning writer whose work has appeared in many newspapers and literary journals, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, Brevity,  Pearl, Smokelong Quarterly, Literary Mama, and on KQED fm. Her essays have been included in fourteen anthologies, including the Chicken Soup, Rocking Chair Reader, and Travelers Tales series.  She has worked as a freelance journalist for many local publications including Diablo Magazine, the East Bay Monthly, Solano, the Contra Costa Times and the Berkeley Daily Planet. She wrote the weekly Arts & Leisure feature for the Knight Ridder newspapers in the east bay in 2004-2005. She is currently at work on a memoir about her love affair with Mexico.

Five days after graduating from college, Suzanne moved to Mexico, where she lived for the next six years. She taught in a prison in Tijuana, translated for a Belizian presidential candidate, tie dyed tee shirts in a steamy jungle town, and began importing Mexican folk art into boutiques in the States.

When she finally moved back to the U.S., ostensibly to go and get an MBA, she took yet another detour and ended up opening her own folk art store in San Francisco, where for five years she sold everything from fertility charms to giant carved wooden mermaids.

These days, she spends her time being mostly unwild, writing and enjoying a prolific persimmon tree and her two young children in Berkeley.

Check out her website.