About Me & My Memoir in Progress

Bio

Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley, she/her/ella, is the Chapters Liaison and Long Beach, CA Chapter Lead for Women Who Submit. She creates engaging stories for and about bilingual, bicultural brown girls and women. Her writing is featured in The Latinx Project at NYU, Gathering: A Women Who Submit Anthology, Made in LA Volume 4: Beyond the Precipice and HarperVia's Somewhere We Are Human edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House, Macondo and VONA. Her film, The Big Deal, won the Imagen Award for Best Theatrical Short and screened at festivals throughout the US. A Dominicana via Washington Heights, she lives in Long Beach, CA with her husband and two children.

LATE BLOOMER

My memoir is told from a feminist, bilingual, bicultural point of view. It features a strong female narrator who fled a violent relationship by outsmarting her abuser. I thrived over trauma, mended the frayed relationship with my mother, met my second and last husband on a dating website and overcame my struggle with infertility.

LATE BLOOMER explores migration, maternal rage, domestic violence and racing against time; I had to get out of an abusive marriage alive so my mother could die in peace. At thirty-four, I wanted kids but not with my then husband. My biological clock was about to disintegrate and I needed a do over; a mother who beat the odds, a new husband and kids.