Monica lives with her husband, preschool-aged son, and needy cat in Minnesota. She teaches high school Spanish. She’s also learned and taught French. Her first adult job was teaching English in rural Ecuador for a year. Besides Ecuador, she’s traveled to China, France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, England, and many corners of the United States. The first book she remembers loving was Matilda by Roald Dahl. She keeps her love of books going with the help of her local geeky bookclub. It’s an actual bookclub and not a wine club disguised as a bookclub. She’s been previously published in Every Day Fiction, 101 Words, and Enchanted Conversation. She’s also won the Geek Partnership Society writing contest, and received honorable mention in The Preservation Foundation nonfiction essay contest. This is her first publication in print, which makes her extra excited about it.

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