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Casandra Lopez is a Chicana, Cahuilla, Luiseño and Tongva writer. She received an MFA from the University of Mexico and took a position as the Indigenous Writer resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2013. She has also been a resident at the School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook, a community focused solely on female writers. Lopez's first chapbook, Where Bullet Breaks, was published in 2014 after she won the 2013 Native Writers Chapbook Award from the Sequoyah National Research Center. She is actively planning to publish a second chapbook, titled After Bullet. Currently, she teaches at Northwest Indian College and is one of the founding editors of As/Us: A Space For Women Of The World.
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