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||i;n;;??|fe ?htrpdyces a writer new to our page$.f Read the beginning of a 5; previously unj^ ; : the writer here, then go to our giwebsi^ com) to Mister Empanada ihg 1? her dais 0b?p$? ing home iaiul figure I'll deal with dash f ?ist?? thi? sun, ; ^l?ch lerijg?c). to of the Id?fip^ tfe cool ?fcu^ te so fit it'??old inside When she gets in, She;: hates :m^ : I dropped ; it low : on ptirpos? to messiMth her arthritis. I've told her, her> ?te style hasn't meaht anjrthing I open-the frdnt d?or, I aftem?bn npv?la. lla? voli??ne is put arid ;not on one of her walks. The ;Hspaj||iper|l all; always about a womari deal ing with a cheating man?and only ; jfeash. 3Sfpt that she has much else to ;ldl^sM??|sJhe months ago. She either spends the ; n ^jtiioOLe: ;^ j cJ?jr, ; ; ^\^^?c^iiftg^ 0 ^?p^?lal?i; : Hirtel: : ^ okin^;, or walking slowly around th? neighborhood saying "hi" to p?bple who dbn't know her ? lot of times she'll go to work with my mom and clean offices, make epf fee?^Abuela says throwing some rhari's ; garbage but from under, his., desk makes h^r feel like she still matters, has a purpose. She's been = talking; like that?dramatic as the spap pp?ras-^since she came here ?f?er^^ yerti?irte: Ca p6 ?rucet was; bon?itoCu ban : pa rents an d raised in M iarni> Florida. Her debut story Collection; How to LeaveHialeah, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award, the 2010 j John (iardnerf rction ?yvaVd, was ;named a Best Book of the Year by both the Miami Herald ) a nd the Latirirdad List, arid wasafinal ist for the Cnicano/Lati no Literary Award. She is the recipient of the John Winthrop prize & Residency for Emerging Writers, the Devil's Kitchen, ': . Readihg ?war? io Prose^and schiblarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. H?r st?r?es / have a ppeared in Ploughshares; Epoch, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and other ; magazines,; and book reviews.^p^^??Mqs^n?rA^w York City weekly. She current,- .; iy I ives in Los Angeles; where she works for the One Voice Scholars Program as a counselor to first-g?her?tion^ school seniors in South Central and doyvntown LA. She . iiii?^ipijBiS?iaS .'/SB? /''"Iflf-'/BI 61 World Literature Today ...
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