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Originally posted on THE FEM : Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez is a Latina poet and a university Reference Librarian in Miami.  She grew up in Puerto Rico, the daughter of Peruvian and Puerto Rican parents.  She began to write for publication after she won Writer’s Digest’s 2nd annual poetry contest; since then, she’s read her poetry…

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Originally posted on Paving My Author's Road: On this day last year, on December 3, 2014, I self-published my poetry chapbook “Can You Catch My Flow?” Before I released my poetry chapbook out into the world, I submitted it to many chapbook contests. And just when I was considering about self-publishing, Finishing Line Press sent…

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I presented Shining from a Different Firmament at the Miami Book Fair International this year!  My fellow panelists were Laura McDermott and Oscar Fuentes.  I felt quite fortunate to be presenting at the same fair as US Poet Laureates Juan Felipe Herrera and Kay Ryan and I was able to catch their event because my

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Source: AUTHOR INSIGHT: MEET JULIET MARILLIER

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Source: Yago S. Cura/Ghazals for James Foley

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I’ve created two displays this year: one especially for Banned YA Lit authors, since 2015 is the year of Banned YA Literature!

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Laura Smith’s art and my poetry were paired together by TLE’s editor Jenny O’Grady–I think the result worked!  I’m thrilled to be a part of this wonderfully creative journal! The Light Ekphrastic:  August 2015 – Issue 23.

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I’ve been blogging at beasbooks.blogspot.com and had created but left this blog inert. Everyone seems to be switching to WordPress lately so I’m going to migrate here as well.  The worst thing is having to make the change on all my contact information everywhere–even my chapbook, Shining from a Different Firmament, has my old blog

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