Krystal Anali Vazquez is a writer and an attorney from Los Angeles living in Brooklyn. Her work navigates the roads in the México lindo of her family’s past and present with those above the border. She holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown, and Columbia Law School. At Georgetown, she was a fellow in the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. There, she was also awarded the Community Scholars Program Teaching Assistantship and Scholarship, allowing her to serve as teaching assistant for the program where she taught and mentored many first-generation college students. During law school, Krystal participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic in addition to providing pro bono assistance for immigrant communities at Catholic Charities and African Services Committee in Manhattan. 

As part of her current legal practice at one of the top AmLaw 100 Firms, Krystal works on government and internal investigations and anti-corruption matters, including those that implicate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She is also a member of her firm’s team that defends the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Additionally, she has helped secure grants of asylum for clients from the Northern Triangle and elsewhere.

Though she is more of a “dog” person, Krystal currently resides in Greenpoint with two cats, a brother and a sister, of Oreo cheesecake complexion.

Lady without Land will be her first published novel.