Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the manager for the Utah Center for the Book and Utah’s Affiliate to the Library of Congress. Along with his forthcoming novel Cast Away, he is the author of the award-winning novel Let the Wild Grasses Grow and the award-winning memoir Beyond the Grip of …
Marcela Landres, the Manuscript Madrina, is the author of the e-book How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You, and is the publisher of Latinidad®, an award-winning e-zine which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer’s Digest. As an editorial consultant, she helps writers get published by editing their work and …
This interview with Claire Jiménez is part of a Latino Stories series between our Columnist, Teresa Dovalpage and Latinx editors, publishers and authors. Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. She is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, …
This interview with Maria Miranda Maloney is part of a Latino Stories interview series between our Columnist, Teresa Dovalpage and Latinx editors, publishers and authors. Maria is Publisher and Executive Editor at Mouthfeel Press. She was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in a small farm community of mostly immigrant families. She is also …
Welcome to the Latinx Kid Lit Corner. In this edition, we had the pleasure of interviewing writer, scholar, and educator, Dr. Oriel Maria Siu. Her latest children’s book title, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It’s Over! (2021), is being used in grade schools and on college campuses to dispel myths about how the Americas were discovered …
