The daughter of immigrants from Mexico, Silvia Gonzalez S. (Scherer) was born in San Fernando, CA, and grew up in the barrio of Pacoima, near Los Angeles. She attended Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles, studied abroad in Rome, and graduated from Loyola University of Chicago. In 1989 her play Boxcar won at the Multicultural Playwright's Festival with the Seattle Group Theatre. Gonzalez has lived and worked in Arizona, Chicago-where she was a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists Workshop-and Portland, Oregon. Other plays written by Gonzalez include: Alicia in Wonder Tierra (or, I Can't Eat Goat Head), Don't Promise, Los Matadores, The Migrant Farmworker's Son, U Got the Look, and Waiting Women .
From the guide to the Silvia Gonzalez S. Papers 1996-07. 176648446., 1982-1994, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin)
