Author : Michelle Gonzales

Michelle Cruz Gonzales recently finished a memoir, Pretty Bold For a Mexican Girl: Growing Up Chicana in a Hick Town, and she teaches English and Creative Writing at Las Positas College. Michelle has never published, but she played drums and wrote lyrics in an all-female punk band in the 1990s. The band, Spitboy, toured Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and the United States. She blogs about writing and recollections here and lives in Oakland with her husband, son, and their two Mexican dogs.