About the Author

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MONA ALVARADO FRAZIER is the author of The Garden of Second Chances (SparkPress, 2023). Her writing has been included in Basta! 100+ Women against Gender Violence (University of Nevada, Reno Latino Research Center, 2017) and Palabritas, a Harvard literary journal. She is a member of SCBWI and Macondo Writers and co-founder of LatinxPitch, an annual X event. She lives with her family in Oxnard, California.