Lucia Orth is the author of the debut novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop, which received critical acclaim from Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, Booklist, Library Journal and Small Press Reviews. She is a world traveler, human rights activist and professor of Native American law in Lawrence, Kansas, now working on her second novel.
I edited Orth’s essay “My Time At Tiananmen on the 5th Anniversary of the Massacre—To All Those Silenced, on the 20th Anniversary”, her review of The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim and her review of An Unquenchable Thirst by Mary Johnson.
Lucia Orth says:
“Victoria was one of the first readers of my novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop. Her perceptive reading and helpful comments at Squaw Valley Conference aided me in finishing it. More recently, Victoria edited my essay on Tiananmen Square, taking a somewhat lengthy and ’soft’ work and quickly making it into a stronger and polished piece that was published in time for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 2009. Easy to work with, but a perfectionist if you want the ‘treatment’—trust her!”