Barbara Mujica has written several novels. Frida, based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was an international bestseller and has appeared in eighteen languages. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate. Sister Teresa, based on the life of Teresa de Ávila, was adapted for the stage at the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. The play opened at the Elephant Theater in Hollywood in November 2013. A Spanish translation of the novel was published in Chile in 2017. I Am Venus was a winner of the Maryland Writers Association National Fiction Competition and a quarter-finalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Competition. Mujica has also published two collections of short stories, Sanchez across the Street and Far from My Mother’s Home. Two of her stories have been adapted for the stage by the Jewish Women’s Theater in Los Angeles.
Mujica’s latest book is Collateral Damage: Women Write about War, an anthology of women’s war-writing to be published later this year by the University of Virginia Press.
Her stories, “Prejudice” and “Ahmed the Tailor”, have appeared in Living Springs Baby Boomer Plus Collections.
You can find Barbara’s books here.
Barbara's book and the Baby Boomer Plus Collections
