Graciela Limón [SEP] educated at
degree, and from University of California Los Angeles with a PhD in Spanish American Literature. 
She is a professor emeritus of Loyola Marymount University, while there she taught U.S. and Hispanic literature and also served as chair of the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies. She attempted to publish a collection of her essays but every editor she went to rejected them. This caused her to spend some time in depression. 
She is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Los Angeles she
Graciela Limón
Graciela Limón (born August 2, 1938 Los Angeles) is a Latina/Chicana novelist and a former university professor. She has been honored with an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.
Limón has written critical work on Mexican, Latin American and Caribbean Literature.  However, she now concentrates her writing efforts on creative fiction that is germane to her areas of interest: feminism, social justice and cultural identity.  Her body of work includes "In