Villatoro, Marcos M.

"Marcos M. Villatoro is the author of nine books. He has won numerous prizes, including two Emmy Awards for his PBS Television essays. His first Romilia Chacón thriller was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Villatoro was born in San Francisco and raised in Tennessee. He has spent much of his life in Central America (in his other country, El Salvador). Villatoro is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Writing at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, where he lives. The Romilia Chacón books have been published in five languages: English, German, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese.";