2025 Musa Mentor
Angela Velez
Learn more about your mentor:
Preferred Age Category: Young Adult Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Anything grounded in reality, including (but not limited to!): contemporary YA, rom-coms, and speculative fiction As a mentor I love working on: nailing character voices and motivation, weaving story threads together, revising!!! Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: brainstorming big-picture story architecture, building a craft toolbox with outlines and charts, and preparing for the querying process Areas of weakness as a mentor: sci-fi or fantasy world building, in-depth line edits, novels in verse. |
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ABOUT ANGELA...
Angela Velez grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, under the watchful eye of her Peruvian immigrant parents. She earned her bachelor of arts from Columbia University and her master of fine arts from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Durham, with her piles of books, three plastic flamingos, and one wobbly disco ball. Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity is her first novel.
You can visit her online at www.angelavelez.com.
Angela Velez grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, under the watchful eye of her Peruvian immigrant parents. She earned her bachelor of arts from Columbia University and her master of fine arts from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Durham, with her piles of books, three plastic flamingos, and one wobbly disco ball. Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity is her first novel.
You can visit her online at www.angelavelez.com.