Maria Venegas

Maria Venegas is an American writer, who was born in Mexico. She immigrated to the United States at the age of four. She graduated from Hunter College with an MFA in creative writing, where she was a 2007 Hertog Fellow for Frank McCourt. In 2015, she was a Hertog Fellowship mentor to a Hunter College MFA student. NPR, and the Chicago Tribune.

Works Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter (2014)