Los Angeles writer. PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow, LAMBDA LGBTQ Emerging Writer Fellow, UC Irvine Creative Writing. www.Victor-TheWriter.com

Victor Vazquez is a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, and a LAMBDA Literary Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow. He holds two playwriting commissions with 24th Street Theatre, and one with Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival. He is a recipient of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund McNamara Creative Arts Grant, a graduate of UC Irvine’s undergraduate creative writing emphasis program, and currently works as a Community Organizer in the Artistic Department at The Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Spanish is his native language. He is writing a book of poems titled Men and a novel titled Us, Boys. He lives in Los Angeles. www.Victor-TheWriter.com

Catch Character Sketch: Create LGBT Characters with Victor Vazquez on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 9:00 am.