Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel was born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey. She has a degree in French and art history from New York University, and an MFA from Florida International University. Her debut novel, Vida was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Awards, winner of an Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction, and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an LA Weekly Top Book of the Year.