Guadalajara Teen Wins Gold

It took Loretta Lopez by surprise when she looked up to see these words from her short fiction piece “Tatoo” flash across a huge screen at Carnegie Hall in New York.

“It was really strange and surreal,” says the 17-year-old Guadalajara American School senior. “I felt really honored.”

Guadalajara’s Loretta Lopez stands outside New York’s Carnegie Hall with her two gold medals for writing.
At first, Lopez wasn’t overawed after hearing that she had won a gold medal for her piece from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, an organization that highlights the emerging talent of American teen writers.

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