Virginia Grise

Virginia Grise is a Chicana cultural worker, writer, performer, and teacher from San Antonio, Texas. She has taught writing in the juvenile correction system and has facilitated organizing efforts among women, immigrant, Chicano, working class and queer youth.

The Panza Monologues, her one-woman performance piece, was published by Evelyn Street Press and has toured throughout the Southwest. As a member of Accion Zapatista, she traveled to Chiapas Mexico as a peace observer and edited a volume of Zapatista communiqués entitled Conversations with Don Durito, published by Autonomedia Press. Virginia has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, and Cuba. She is currently seeking her MFA in Writing for Performance at the California Institute of Arts, under the mentorship of Carl Hancock Rux.