María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author. Her novel, L.A. Weather (Flatiron Books,) is a Reese’s Book Club pick, one of the NYT Best Books, 2021. Her first novel, Esperanza’s Box of Saints (Simon & Schuster,) was number one in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List and González & Daughter Trucking Co. (Random House,) is her second novel. She teaches Creative Writing at UCLA Extension since 1994.

A Reading and Conversation with María Amparo Escandón