Description: Francine Rodriguez is an author from Los Angeles. She writes about women and the hard lives they lead while trying to just get by.
A Woman’s Story tells the stories of Latina women’s lives. Depicting conflict in gender bias, experiences of exploitation, violence, and powerlessness, sometimes resulting in pain and despair in their turbulent world.
A Woman Like Me is a dark and gritty warrior’s journey of a one-of-a-kind protagonist. This story of a bi-racial, transgender woman, begins with her imprisonment in the Phillippines for murder where she becomes a Muay Thai fighter in the prison circuit and follows her to Bangkok, and then to New Orleans.
Francine Rodriguez is an author who grew up in and around downtown Los Angeles and later worked as a Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator in the Federal sector. All told, she has worked in the fields of law and psychology for over thirty years, and her experiences in these fields inform her writing. She has published two novels, A Fortunate Accident ( Booklocker 2015), and A Woman Like Me ( Booklocker 2019). She also has a new short story collection about the lives of women in Los