Ms. Adriana Victoria Lopez is a writer, editor, book critic, and translator who divides her time between New York and Spain. So she knows how to travel light, but with exactly the right types of shoes and jewelry to accessorize well. She's currently compiling a story collection entitled "Barcelona Noir," with her former Críticas magazine partner-in-crime, Carmen Ospina, for Akashic Books' award winning City Noir fiction series. A proud member of PEN America, she also has a website, if you can find it at: www.adrianavlopez.com
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Here's a list of her published books:

Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles and Other Quinceañera Stories (HarperCollins, 2007, Editor). Adriana was thrilled to able to edit terrific Latino writers such as Felicia Luna Lemus, Michael Jaime Becerra, Angie Cruz, Erasmo Guerra and more in this kitschy collection of quinceañera tales. Think John Waters meets Mi Vida Loca.
Juicy Mangos (Simon & Schuster, 2007, Story Contributor). This year her novella, Don't Be Mad at Me, was published alongside the godly work of writer Mayra Montero with an uber translation by none other than Miguel de Cervantes' translator, Edith Grossman. Muy chevere. According to her agent, Adriana's story is an Edgar Allan Poe kind of love story.
Border-Line Personalities (HarperCollins, 2004, Memoir). This was a coming-of-age dramedy that she can't believe she actually wrote and published to show to the world. Her story, Straddling Desire, was edited by the gorgeous and talented duo Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno. Maybe that's why.
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002, Essay). This fresh and exciting collection of women of color feminist manifestos was edited by her former WILL (Women in Literature and Letters) cohorts Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman. Fierce politics, good times.
Hopscotch: A Latin American Cultural Review (Duke University Press, 2001, Essay). This was Adriana's very first published creative non fiction essay about the women in her family and the history of Latin American feminist movements that she entitled, Feminism and Femininity: In Praise of Difficult Chicas. It was edited by Ilan Stavans and made her mother very proud. You could be proud of her, too, if you ever read it.