Viola Canales

Who is Viola Canales?

Viola Canales is an American writer originally from McAllen, Texas. She has published a short story collection, Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales, and a novel, The Tequila Worm for which she won the Pura Belpré Award in 2006.

Canales attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. She has been a captain in the US Army, a litigator, and an official in the Clinton Administration. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses that combine law and fiction writing.