We thought it would be great to hear from another writing duo about their co-authoring process, so we reached out to our fellow Novel Nineteens cohorts, Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones. Gilly and Kimberly’s debut novel Mass Disturbance is set […]
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi I’ve read a lot of YA fantasy. A lot. So much so that there are times when they all jumble together into one epic tale that I can’t quite distinguish from one […]
Originally Published October 28, 2014 Photo Above and Feature Photo Taken by Nisian Hughes Our latest conversation is with another amazing dancer, Michaela DePrince. At the age of 19, she’s been interviewed by Teen Vogue, written a book with her mother and hopes to […]
Something that you might not know about me is that I used to write poems. Lots of poems. I wrote about everything and nothing: being Haitian, whatever random topic my childhood best friend and I would choose to tackle, my […]
About a week ago, I was in Haiti visiting relatives with my family in Cap-Haïtien for the first time in 23 years. I felt so many emotions while I was there: happiness, pride, anxiety … Does hot count as an […]
We (Maika and Maritza) have super amazing news and we’re so excited to share it (and it’s not an April Fool’s joke)! We wrote a book and it was acquired by Harlequin TEEN, an imprint of HarperCollins! Come Fall 2019, […]