Monica Palacios is the creator of solo shows, plays, screenplays, short stories, stand-up comedy, poems, featuring the Latinx LGBTQ experience. Palacios is a 2024 Nominee United States Artists Fellow. Monica is the winner of the 2021 inaugural Nancy Dean Playwriting Award sponsored by Open Meadows Foundation. Monica was selected for the Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College 2019. Palacios was granted The McKenna Guest Theater Artist Award 2019 during her fall residency at Holyoke Community College. She is featured in the queer documentary STAND UP, STAND OUT: The Making Of A Comedy Movement by David Pavlosky, about the first gay comedy club in the nation 1980s San Francisco www.standupstandoutfilm.com. Monica was selected as the Playwright Faculty for the 2021 Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Palacios has received numerous awards for her positive contributions to the Latinx LGBTQ population, most recently from the City of Los Angeles as a Latinx LGBTQ Trailblazer. Monica was selected for a Postdoctoral Rockefeller Fellowship from University of California Santa Barbara allowing her to write, direct and produce her play Sweet Peace. Current solo performances and plays being presented: I'm Still Here, Say Their Names, San Francisco Mi Amor!, BROWNER QUEERER LOUDER PROUDER and I Kissed Chavela Vargas. Recent publications include: Practicing Transgressions by Third Woman Press 2023; The Jota Anthology by Korima Press 2023; Scenes For Latinx Actors: Voices of The New American Theatre by Smith and Kraus Publishers 2018; Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando by Damaged Goods Press 2018; Game Changers: Lesbians You Should Know About by Robin Lowey Press 2017—Winner of Next Generation Indie Book Award 2018, and IMANIMAN: Poets Writing In The Anzaldúan Borderlands by Aunt Lute Press 2016