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SUMMARY:LitTalk: Marcela Fuentes
DESCRIPTION:Created in 2019 by Alex Temblador as a way to highlight DFW-based authors\, LitTalk has provided a platform for over two dozen writers to share their insights into the craft\, business and inspiration of their work. Now\, after a short hiatus\, LitTalk is back\, and we’re so excited to welcome Lauren Brazeal Garza as Alex’s co-host for the series!\n\nJoining the Talk in November is Marcela Fuentes\, a newly minted American Book Award winner for her debut novel Malas. Come hear from Fuentes about her creative process and experiences since the novel’s publication\, plus we’ll also have time for a few questions. We can’t wait to see you for the return of LitTalk!\n\n\nMarcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her debut novel\, Malas\, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024. Malas won the Texas institute of Letters First Novel Prize\, the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel\, the Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction\, and an American Book Award. Other honors include Southwest Book of the Year\,  Writers League of Texas Book Award finalist\, shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Prize\, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her second book\, My Heart Has More Rooms than a Whorehouse\, is forthcoming from Viking Books. She is an Associate Professor at Texas Christian University. She lives in Fort Worth with her two German Shepherds\, Francisco and Dolly.\n\nAlex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own\, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her creative writing has been published in PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, among others\, and she has taught creative writing seminars\, workshops\, and classes with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association\, WritingWorkshops.com\, the Writer’s League of Texas\, and more. She lives in Dallas\, writing books and working as an award-winning travel and products journalist.\n\n\nLauren Brazeal Garza is the author of five books of poetry and fiction including her memoir-in-verse\, Gutter (YesYes Books\, 2018)\, which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. She earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Bennington College\, and her Ph.D. in Literature from The University of Texas at Dallas. She teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Texas at Dallas.\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for the reading
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/littalk-marcela-fuentes/
LOCATION:The Wild Detectives\, 314 W 8th St\, Dallas\, TX\, 75208\, United States
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