Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

Luisita López Torregrosa (born 1943) is a Puerto Rican journalist, book author, editor, freelance writer, and professor. She has reported from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. She has lived in Manila, Tokyo, and the United States. She is the author of The Noise of Infinite Longing, published by Rayo/HarperCollins in 2004, and Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution, which was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012 and nominated for best lesbian memoir at the 25th Lambda Literary Awards.

Life Luisita López Torregrosa is the daughter of Amaury López, who was a doctor, and of María Luisa Torregrosa, who was a beauty contest winner, lawyer, and founder of Farándula Bohemia, a touring theater company in Puerto Rico. She is one of six siblings and grew up in Puerto Rico and Mexico City. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, at Fordham University, and at the University of Miami. She has also been interviewed by leading Puerto Rican book critics such as Carmen Dolores Hernández.

Publications The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--and an Island. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2004. Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.