Sonia Gutiérrez is the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award and the International Latino Book Awards for her novel Dreaming with Mariposas (FlowerSong Press, 2020). Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña (Olmeca Press, 2013) and the coeditor of The Writer’s Response (Cengage Learning, 2016). She teaches critical thinking and writing, creative writing, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is working on her first picture book, The Adventures of a Burrito Flying Saucer, and poetry collection, Sana Sana Colita de Rana. She lives in the Californias.