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Cecile
Pineda was born in New York
City, migrating to California in 1961 where she has lived ever
since in the San Francisco-Bay Area. She is the author of The
Love Queen of the Amazon, written with the assistance of
a National Endowment Fiction Fellowship and named Notable Book
of the Year by the New York Times; Frieze, and Face
which won the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California;
the Sue Kaufman Prize awarded by the American Academy & Institute
of Arts & Letters, and the American Book Award nomination
for first fiction. She has completed Fishlight: A Dream of
Childhood, a non-fiction memoir, Bardo99, and Redoubt, a mononovel, available from Wings Press, San Antonio in a uniform edition of her work. Screen rights to her novels are now available.
Prior to her career as a novelist, she founded and directed Theatre
of Man, her own experimental ensemble theater company dedicated
to the development of original performance works.
She has taught fiction writing since 1987 in San Diego, and currently
in the San Francisco-Bay Area.
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