Writing an Identity Not Your Own, with Alex Temblador

How to write an identity not your own! Also: on inhabiting your character, on easy reading being damned hard writing, on grounding the reader in a scene, and expecting that you WILL make mistakes (and that’s okay.)

Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author ofWriting An Identity Not Your Own,Secrets of the Casa RosadaandHalf Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor toLiving Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in AmericaandSpeculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology.Her work has also appeared in PALABRITAS, D Magazine, and Colorado Review.Alex 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, as well as spoken about diversity in the literary world with Macmillan, Texas Library Association, Abydos Learning Conference, and at many other festivals, conferences, and universities.

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