Jun 30, 2021
Books Are Stronger When Written in Community
We write alone, but stories are meant to be shared.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018) a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, and elsewhere. A new work of nonfiction, a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds, is coming from Doubleday in 2022.
We write alone, but stories are meant to be shared.
The three Polaroids that hang by my desk are from different parts of the story, but it helps to have them nearby.
