Casandra López

Casandra López is a California Indian (Tongva/Luiseño) and Chicana writer. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico. 

López is the author of Brother Bullet (University of Arizona Press, 2019). López’s work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), MacDowell, and the UCross Foundation. 

An assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, López lives on unceded Kumeyaay land.