2026 Musa Mentor

M. García Peña / Mia García

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Learn more about your mentor:

Preferred Age Category: Picture Book or YA

Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Open to all!

As a mentor I love working on: Helping a writer find their voice.

Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: Building confidence. Keep deadlines. Motivating. Asking a lot of questions ;) 

Areas of weakness as a mentor: I prefer a more fleshed out plot, at the moment I can't work on something in early development. 

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ABOUT MIA...

M. García Peña / Mia García (she/her) was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She got her MFA at The New School and is the author of Even If the Sky Falls, The Resolutions, a contributor in the Our Shadows Have Claws and Onward anthologies, and the picture book When We Find Her. She is a founding member of the artist collective Las Musas Books and splits her time between Puerto Rico and New York.

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