Lupita Aceves Barragan

Lupita Aceves Barragan is a writer and educator from Oxnard, CA. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. She is a doctoral student in the English department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing. Her research interests include narrative theory, disability studies, and the health and medical humanities. Her work in Ploughshares is her first publication. (Updated 7/2026)