Cara Lopez Lee

Cara Lopez Lee's novel, Candlelight Bridge (FlowerSong Press), is a 2025 Pick in Fiction in Southwest Books of the Year, shortlister for the Hawthorne Prize, and honoree in the International Latino Book Awards. She’s also the author of the memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands (Bower House). Her stories appear in such publications as The Manifest-Station, Writer’s Digest, and Rivet. She’s a Moth StorySLAM winner and tells stories on stage in such shows as Unheard L.A. and Risk. She and her husband live in Ventura, California, where they enjoy gardening in their certified wildlife habitat full of birds, bees, and butterflies.