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Jan.04.2012
I've spent too many years trying to reinvent myself as a poet and author to change anything now. Before my novel, Ocotillo Dreams, was published (2011), I used to sidestep question, 'So You're a Writer? What have you written?' Although I told myself and others that writing was more important than...
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Sep.26.2011
August marked the beginning of the Ocotillo Dreams book tour. I don’t have an agent or a big publishing house to send me on a 30-city book tour, but I’m a determined person of the world with a story to share. My novel is a work of fiction, set during the 1997 INS Sweeps in Chandler, Arizona. The...
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Jun.12.2011
The rebirth of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference begins next week, June 18-23, under the new ownership of Monte Schulz and Nicole Starczak. The conference has been on hold for two years. For many local Santa Barbara authors, the conference is where we got our start.
In 2001, I...
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About Melinda
Palacio is a 2007 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Her poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown, is the Sense of Place winner, Kulupi Press, 2009. She has been widely anthologized, including New Poets of the American West and Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology...
Causes Melinda Palacio Supports
I have many causes I admire.