Malín Alegría
Malín Alegría is a teacher, permaculture consultant, eco-warrior, Aztec dancer, and performer. She is the author of two novels for youth, Estrella's Quinceñera (Simon & Schuster, 2006) and Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico (Simon & Schuster, 2007). She was raised in San Francisco's Mission District and is a graduate of the University of California—Santa Barbara, where she also received her M.A. in Education. She has performed with and written for Teatro Nopal and the WILL Collective. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Once Upon a Cuento, and 15 Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories. Malin currently lives in California and New Mexico, where she is hard at work growing the perfect nopal.
Come to a place where the skylines move like creek-beds, where people understand craft as a way of life. One weekend the best women artists from around the world venture to this place to exchange ideas, process, performance—calling us to newly imagine what it means to be a writer.
