Women’s History Month’s Feature: Julia Alvarez, Poet, Novelist, and Essayist

Hello book
lovers! In celebration of Women’s History Month, I would like to present to
you, poet, novelist, and essayist, Julia Alvarez. Her work is influenced by her
Dominican-American experiences and focuses on issues of immigration, assimilation,
and identity. She has achieved critical and commercial success internationally
and is regarded by many literary critics as a significant Latina writer. Some
of her novels include How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In
the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). In 2014, she won
the National Medal of Arts. She is currently the writer-in-residence at
Middlebury College where she teaches creative writing part-time. Check out her quote about passing on kindness.
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Deliah Lawrence Attorney, Author, Blogger, Workshop Facilitator

Deliah Lawrence is a Maryland-based attorney and award-winning author of two romantic suspense novels (Gotta Let It Go and Gotta Get It Back) set in Baltimore. She’s also a blogger and workshop facilitator who writes poetry and short stories.

When Deliah isn’t writing, you can find her reading a book, indulging in her addiction to investigation discovery shows; or painting her yet-to-be exhibited oil artworks of landscapes, portraits or whatever else comes to her creative mind. Constantly on the go, she is also a member of the Black Writers’ Guild of Maryland and Sisters in Crime.