María Amparo Escandón
María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author (English and Spanish.) Her novel, L.A. Weather (Flatiron Books) is a Reese’s Book Club pick and is featured on Oprah Quarterly as well as a Best Book of the Month in Barnes & Noble, Alta, People, PopSugar, Bustle, CNN, E! News, Ms. Magazine, Nylon, GMA, and more. She won the Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards in 2022.
María wrote the screenplay for the film Santitos, produced by John Sayles, receiving awards in 14 international Film Festivals, such as the Latin Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Special Jury Award at the Rencontres Cinémas de Toulouse, France.
She founded The Other Truth Productions, a content production company, with a pipeline of projects in development, like the television mini-series, Mudflap Girl, based on her second novel, González & Daughter Trucking Co. and a TV series based on her third novel, L.A. Weather.
María Amparo Escandón has taught Creative Writing workshops at UCLA Extension since 1994. She has been an advisor at the Sundance Film Institute Screenwriters Labs in Mexico and Brazil. Since 2000, she has served as a mentor for the PEN Center Emerging Voices Program. Additionally, she mentors for LitUp, Reese Witherspoon’s fellowship for empowering unpublished, underrepresented women writers.
María is invited regularly as keynote speaker and panelist at universities, writing conferences, seminars, film festivals, book expos, fundraisers and prisons. María has been an L.A. resident for forty years.
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