Born and raised in the seismically fractured and diverse landscape of California, Rashaan Alexis Meneses earned her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California’s Creative Writing Program where she was named a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She received her B.A. in English with a specialization in Fiction, Creative Writing from UCLA, was recently awarded 2013 fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and The Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and named a finalist in 2009 for A Room of Her Own Foundation’s The Gift of Freedom Award.
Nominated for a Sundress Best of the Net Prize, current publications include a personal essay in Doveglion Press, short stories in the Australia based literary journal Kurungabaa, UC Riverside’s The Coachella Review, University of North Carolina’s Pembroke Magazine, and the anthology, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. She currently teaches as Adjunct Professor for Liberal & Civic Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California.
She is the founder of Ruelle Electrique and tumbles at The Quarry.
