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Loida sells advertising by day for the Houston Chronicle, a Hearst newspaper. She is a writer by night and has been blogging at ShoeGirl Corner for eighteen years.

You can find her novel "Broken Cousins" and other stories on Kindle Vella/Amazon.

Her short story "The Canal" was a Glimmer Train Press finalist and she had an essay published on LiteraryMama.com .

Her “This I Believe” essay was chosen by NPR and KUHF, Houston Public Media. She has read with Nuestra Palabra, Latinos Having Their Say, and has appeared on their radio program on KPFT, Radio Pacifica.

She is the founder of Little Libraries in Laundromats in Houston. ...more

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Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home

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Woman Without Shame: Poems

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“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

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“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

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