Michele Serros Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles
• Completed her first book, "Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard," in 1994 while she was still an undergraduate at UCLA
• Traveled as a road poet for the Lollapalooza music festival in the 1990s
• Quote: "[There's] a theme [in YA novels] I call the three Bs․ It was always about barrios, borders and bodegas, and I wanted to present a different type of life, a life that truly goes on that we don't always see in the mainstream media․"
• Best known as an author, poet and social commentator whose published works include "Honey Blonde Chica" and "Chicana Falsa․"
• Was a contributor to the children's fiction section of the Los Angeles Times and a writer for "The George Lopez Show․"