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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BÁRBARA MUJICA is a novelist, short story writer, critic, professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, and a contributor to many publications, such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. A two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and winner of the E.L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition, she is the author of the novels The Deaths of Don Bernardo, Affirmative Actions, Frida, and Sister Teresa. In 2012, I Am Venus was a winner of the Maryland Writers’ Association competition in the historical fiction catagory. Mujica lives in Washington, D.C.