Carmen Aguirre is an award-winning theatre artist and author who has written and co-written twenty-five plays. Her first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, won CBC Canada Reads 2012 and is a #1 national bestseller. Her second memoir, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution, was a finalist for the 2017 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, is a Globe and Mail bestseller and a National Post and CBC best book of 2016.