Monica Fernandez

Making a Name for Yourself: Publicity in the Literary World, Saturday, May 2 at 3:30pm and How to Get Published, Sunday, May 7 at 5:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum

Monica Fernandez graduated from the University of California, Irvine cum laude with a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing, and from City University London with a MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. She has had several short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces published in The Chaffey Review, Rind Literary Magazine, Scribendi, The Left Coast Review, Creepy Gnome, and Pure Slush Magazine’s Envy anthology. She is Filipino-American, a proud Hufflepuff, and a film and theatre enthusiast. RedHen.org.

Books That Make a Difference: The Harry Potter Series (unfortunate now, but undeniable then), Weather Woman and Sinking Islands by Cai Emmons, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.