JASMINNE MENDEZ
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Coming Fall 2021
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JOSEFINA'S HABICHUELAS...
Josefina's Habichuelas is the story of a young girl who loves dessert. During the season of Lent Josefina gives up eating sweets and learns the value of perseverance. When her mami and tias teach her the family recipe of habichuelas con dulce, Josefina also learns that sometimes the sweetest things in life aren't sweets. Coming Fall 2021.
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YA MEMOIR...
Becoming a teenager isn’t easy for anyone. But what happens when your need for independence clashes with your immigrant parent’s values? This collection of short personal essays by Jasminne Mendez, reminds us that growing up different can be hard yet rewarding and finding out who we are is a journey and not a destination. Coming 2021.
GOODREADS LINK COMING SOON
Josefina's Habichuelas is the story of a young girl who loves dessert. During the season of Lent Josefina gives up eating sweets and learns the value of perseverance. When her mami and tias teach her the family recipe of habichuelas con dulce, Josefina also learns that sometimes the sweetest things in life aren't sweets. Coming Fall 2021.
GOODREADS LINK COMING SOON
YA MEMOIR...
Becoming a teenager isn’t easy for anyone. But what happens when your need for independence clashes with your immigrant parent’s values? This collection of short personal essays by Jasminne Mendez, reminds us that growing up different can be hard yet rewarding and finding out who we are is a journey and not a destination. Coming 2021.
GOODREADS LINK COMING SOON
ABOUT JASMINNE...
Jasminne Mendez is a poet, performer, playwright, educator, community organizer and award winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in The New England Review, The Acentos Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, and others. She is the author of two poetry/prose collections Island of Dreams(Floricanto Press, 2013) which won an International Latino Book Award, and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry(Arte Publico Press, 2018). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has received fellowships from Canto Mundo and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop among others. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writer's Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and University of Houston alumni. When she is not writing, reading, or daydreaming she enjoys eating cupcakes and singing and dancing with her daughter and partner Luz María and Lupe.
jasminnemendez.com
Jasminne Mendez is a poet, performer, playwright, educator, community organizer and award winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in The New England Review, The Acentos Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, and others. She is the author of two poetry/prose collections Island of Dreams(Floricanto Press, 2013) which won an International Latino Book Award, and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry(Arte Publico Press, 2018). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has received fellowships from Canto Mundo and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop among others. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writer's Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and University of Houston alumni. When she is not writing, reading, or daydreaming she enjoys eating cupcakes and singing and dancing with her daughter and partner Luz María and Lupe.
jasminnemendez.com