In June 1997, Zepeda started an online journal titled ''Gwen's Trailer Trash Page'', which eventually evolved into Gwen's Petty, Judgmental, Evil Thoughts. Around the same time, she became a founding writer for
Television Without Pity, a recap blog for late 1990s television shows, such as
Ally McBeal and
7th Heaven. She is notable as one of the first bloggers to write and sell a book. She later blogged for the
Houston Chronicle in 2009 and 2010. Zepeda sold her first book,
To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him, a short story collection, in 2000. It was published by the Houston-based Latino publishing house,
Arte Público Press, in 2004. Her first novel,
Houston, We Have a Problema is a
chick lit novel and was published by
Grand Central Publishing January 2009. Her first picture book,
Growing Up with Tamales, was published by Piñata Books, an imprint of
Arte Público Press, in May 2008. It is a 2009
Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title and was nominated for a
Tejas Star Award. Piñata Books published her second picture book,
Sunflowers, in May 2009.
Arte Público Press published her first book of poetry,
Falling in Love with Fellow Prisoners, in 2014. She cites
Sandra Cisneros,
Margaret Atwood,
Alice Munro,
Louise Gluck,
Jane Austen,
Ursula K. LeGuin, and
Judy Blume as some of her writing influences. == Bibliography ==