Ruthie Marlenée is a Mexican-American novelist, screenwriter, and poet born and raised in Orange County, California. She earned a Writers’ Certificate in Fiction from UCLA and is the author of Isabela’s Island, Curse of the Ninth, nominated for a James Kirkwood Literary Prize and Agave Blues from which an excerpt A Good Tabernero Listens is nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Ruthie Marlenée
The Human Stain, Philip Roth
The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett