Lilliam Rivera is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her debut young adult novel, My Shelf Life, is set to be published by Simon & Schuster in Spring 2017.
She is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Clarion alumni with a Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. She has been awarded fellowships from PEN Center USA and A Room Of Her Own Foundation. In 2015, she received a grant for emerging writers from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her short story "Death Defiant Bomba" received honorable mention in Bellevue Literary Review's 2014 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, selected by author Nathan Englander. Lilliam was also a finalist for AWP's 2014 WC&C Scholarship Competition.
Lilliam's work has appeared in Tin House, Tahoma Literary Review, Los Angeles Times, Latina, USA Today, Cosmo for Latinas, Sundog Lit, Midnight Breakfast, Bellevue Literary Review, The Rumpus.net, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Lunch Ticket.
She hosts a monthly literary radio show, Literary Soundtrack, on RadioSombra.org. Past guests have included Mat Johnson, Ana Castillo, Meg Medina, Evie Shockley. She's also moderated panels for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, PEN Center USA at AWP, and more.
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