BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in the seismically diverse and fractured landscape of California, Rashaan Alexis Meneses earned her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California’s Creative Writing Program where she was named a 2005-2006 Jacob K. Javits Fellow and awarded the Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz Scholarship for Excellence in Fiction. She received her B.A. in English with a specialization in Fiction, Creative Writing from UCLA. A Room of Her Own Foundation named her a Finalist for The 2009 Gift of Freedom Award.
Nominated for a Sundress Best of the Net Prize, recent publications include short stories in UC Riverside’s The Coachella Review, University of North Carolina’s Pembroke Magazine, and the anthology, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. She currently teaches as Adjunct Professor for Liberal & Civic Studies at Saint Mary’s College.
She is the founder of Ruelle Electrique and tumbles at The Quarry.
