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The daughter of a passionate Mexican woman, Lorraine Mejia-Green was born on a snowy May day in Minnesota. Educated in private Catholic schools, she felt an early calling to explore the world outside her isolated community, so she moved to the city to work with abused/neglected children, battered women, and homeless families. Here she was invited to attend a Native American sweat lodge ceremony, where she felt the whispers of her Mexican/Indian ancestors and began a quest to discover the truth of her own ancestral story. Her journey led her to visit Mexico and live in Spain, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. She became a marathon runner, flamenco dancer, artist, editor, librarian, educator, poet, author, and storyteller.
Today, Lorraine Mejia-Green conducts her Wild Woman at My Door Women's Writing Workshop, along with her other unique writing workshops for people of all ages, around the country. Lorraine Mejia-Green's poems have appeared in anthologies such as Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazòn y la tierra: Latina Poets of the Midwest and in literary journals including Willow Springs, Inkwell, and Calyx. Her awards include an AWP Intro Journal Award, and a winning participant in the Loft Mentor Series, Loft Latino/Chicano Inroads Program, and Norcroft: a Writing Retreat for Women on the breathtaking shores of Lake Superior. Her books, Wild Woman at My Door and Bella Brown are forthcoming in 2010. Lorraine Mejia-Green holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a MLS in Youth Librarianship.
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