Cecca Austin Ochoa

Cecca Austin Ochoa is a queer fiction writer of Salvadoran descent. Her fiction has appeared in Art XX, MAKE: Literary Magazine, Nat. Brut, Anthologized in Pariahs (SFA Press) and forthcoming in IMANIMAN (Aunt Lute Press). Cecca serves as Managing Editor for Apogee Journal. She is a 2014 Alumnus of Voices of Our Nation's Artists. In 2011, she received the Astraea Foundation’s Lesbian Writers Award. She is currently at work on her first novel Desaparecida about a young woman adopted during the Civil War in El Salvador and raised in the United States.