| Female |
| August 4 |
| Fairfield County |
| High School Social Studies Educator who works with students from a variety of countries, who speak a variety of languages. I also teach English as a Second Language. |
| Still discovering what type of a writer I am, yet I enjoy memoir writing and writing Latino fiction and non-fiction. |
| Historical Fiction, Memoir, Creative Fiction |
| Like Water for Chocolate, Olive Kitteridge, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Let the Great World Spin |
| Colum McCann, Elizabeth Strout, Junot Diaz, Esmeralda Santiago, Julia Alvarez, Dave Sidaris, .... |
| Electronica |
| Roman Holiday Breakfast at Tiffany's The Natural |