Carla Mari Trujillo

Carla Mari Trujillo is an author and editor known for her works exploring Chicana lesbian identity, including the anthologies *Living Chicana Theory* and *Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About*, and novels *What Night Brings* (2003) and *Faith and Fat Chances* (2015).[1][2] Born in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to a working-class family, she grew up in Northern California and earned a B.S. in Human Development from UC Davis and M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.[2][3]