Liza Monroy

Liza Monroy is an author and essayist whose books include the novel Mexican High, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend In America And What It Taught Us About Love, and Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire, a collection of personal essays based on the search for love under the watchful eye of her mother, a "profiler" for the US State Department. She recently completed her second novel, The Distractions. www.lizamonroy.com