Michele Serros was still a student at Santa Monica City
College , when her first book of poetry and short stories,
Chicana Falsa and other stories of Death, Identity and
Oxnard, was published. When the original publisher of
Chicana Falsa went out of business, Michele
continued to sell copies from her garage. In 1998, Riverhead
Books reissued
Chicana Falsa and as well as
Serros' latest collection of fiction,
How to be a
Chicana Role Model . The latter instantly became a
Los Angeles Times Best Seller and
both publications are currently used as required reading in
U.S. high schools and universities.
Named by Newsweek as "one of the top young women to watch
for in the new century," Serros has been a featured
contributor for the Los Angeles Times' children's fiction
section and a commentator for National Public Radio
(Morning Edition, Weekend All Things
Considered, Anthem, Along for the Ride, Latino USA). In
addition to being an award-winning poet, Michele has read
her poems to stadium crowds of 25,000+ for
Lollapalooza, recorded
Selected Stories from Chicana Falsa
for Mercury Records and was selected by the
Poetry Society of America to have her poetry placed on MTA
buses throughout Los Angeles County.
In 2002, Michele wrote for the ABC television sitcom, The
George Lopez Show. "An opportunity," she says, "that
hopefully with my contribution opens the door for a wider
representation of Latinos in the mass media."
Currently living in New York City, Ms. Serros is writing
Honey Blonde Chica , a young adult
novel for Simon and Schuster (Pulse) to be published spring
2006.
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