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Gwendolyn Zepeda

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Houston, TX, The United States

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http://www.gwendolynzepeda.com

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Literature & Fiction, Children's Books, Short Stories

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November 2008

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Gwendolyn Zepeda was born in Houston, Texas in 1971 and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She began her writing career on the Web in 1997, with her long-running site gwendolynzepeda.com and as one of the founding writers of entertainment site Television Without Pity. Her first book was a short-story collection called To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him (Arte Público Press, 2004).

Zepeda’s first children’s book, Growing Up with Tamales (Piñata Books) is a 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title. Her first novel, Houston, We Have a Problema (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) won praise from Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist for its wit and upbeat story. Novelist Alisa Valdez Rodriguez calls Zepeda “a...more

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Average rating: 3.46 · 168 ratings · 74 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Houston, We Have a Problema 3.25 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lone Star Legend 3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him 3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Growing Up with Tamales/Los Tamales de Ana 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	I Kick the Ball/Pateo El Balon by Gwendolyn Zepeda (Goodreads Author), Pablo Torrecilla (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Sunflowers/Girasoles by Gwendolyn Zepeda (Goodreads Author), Alisha Gambino (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Better With You Here 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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