Carla Trujillo is a Mexican American fiction writer, editor and administrator at the University of California, Berkeley. She has lectured on Ethnic Studies, both at U.C. Berkeley and also Mills College in Oakland, California. She has also taught courses in Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the former Director of the Graduate Diversity Program at U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of two novels, What Night Brings and Faith and Fat Chances. She is also the editor of an anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, and a critical study, Living Chicana Theory. She lives in the Bay Area.
