A woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a magenta blouse, sits on a stone bench in a garden with flowering pink bushes and green shrubs, smiling at the camera.

Angela Morales

Angela Morales, author of The Girls in My Town, lives in Pasadena, California. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Southwest Review, The Southern Review, The Harvard Review, and other publications. Currently she is working on a new collection of essays.


Articles by Angela Morales

A woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a magenta blouse, sits on a stone bench in a garden with flowering pink bushes and green shrubs, smiling at the camera.
Thursday July 6

from The Girls in My Town

With the fortune-teller’s words echoing in my head, I told myself to fight like a warrior. Screaming felt good. I screamed until my throat became sandpaper.