Adriana Lopez is a writer and editor based in New York City. She is the editor of Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles and Other Quinceañera Stories (HarperCollins, 2007) a collection of personal coming-of-age essays. She was the founding Editor of Críticas magazine, Publishers Weekly's sister publication on the Spanish- language publishing world and served as the spokesperson for the Association of American Publisher's (AAP) Latino Voices for America initiative. She is a member of PEN America.

She has been invited to speak at numerous international and national book fairs on trends in Spanish, Latin American, and Latino letters. She was voted one of the 100 most influential Latinos by Latino Impact in 2002 and featured in Poder magazine's “Guru” page in 2004. The former Arts & Culture editor at Soloella.com and the Editor of Latin Scene and Latin Teen magazines, Lopez currently contributes to the book section at Latina magazine.

Lopez attended Columbia University's School of Journalism and her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Time Out New York, Black Book, among other publications. Through the Progressive Media Project her op-eds concerning U.S. and Latin American relations have been published nationally.

Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting (HarperCollins, 2004), Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002) and Hopscotch: Latin American Cultural Review (Duke University Press, 2000) edited by Ilan Stavans.

Her first novela, “Don't Be Mad at Me" was published in Juicy Mangoes (Simon & Schuster, 2007) a literary erotica collection of Latin American writers edited by Michelle Herrera Mulligan. The collection includes the work of Cuban writer Marya Montero translated by Edith Grossman and Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos Febres amongst others.

Lopez is currently researching and writing a historical novel on female bullfighters of 19th century Spain and is also editing the upcoming collection of stories, Barcelona Noir, for Akashic Books due out in 2009. Lopez divides her time between Madrid and New York City.