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Francesca Padilla

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Francesca Padilla is a Dominican-American fiction writer born and raised in New York City. She is the recipient of a Walter Dean Myers Grant from We Need Diverse Books and holds a BA in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She lives with her family in Rochester, New York. You can usually find her tweeting about books, astrology, health & human services, New York State things, and occasional dumb sh*t @frannypadilla

Sasha Laurens

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SASHA LAURENS grew up in Northern California, where she learned to drive on Highway 1's switchback turns and got accustomed to the best weather in the world. After studying creative writing and literature at Columbia University, she lived in New York for years and, at various times, in Russia. She currently resides in Michigan, where she is pursuing a PhD in political science.