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book reviews, promotional content, and non-fiction essays

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Since I joined Porchlight Book Company in 2018, I've been writing book reviews and curated reading lists, focusing mostly on non-fiction.

You can see all of my articles here.

 

select reviews:

HISTORICAL NONFICTION | Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

READING LIST | Reviews of the Best Innovation and Creativity Books of 2023

GRAPHIC NOVEL | I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand by L. Nichols

HISTORICAL FICTION | Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo Anstine

READING LIST | Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 booklist

My job as Creative Director at Porchlight has included not just updating the website, but helping to rebuild it after the company relaunched in 2018 under its new name. Since then, I've built completely new pages and created copy and graphics to better promote the company's services.

 

Beyond the website, I was fully in control of the company's social media account until 2023, but I still create and edit video content for Instagram and YouTube, which I also write copy for. And I occasionally interview authors too.

 

select content:

Porchlight's Clients | copy and graphics

Services Booklet | photos, layout, and partial copy

Project Highlights | copy, photos/videos, and layout

Ada Limón interview highlight | video edit and copy

"We Believe in Books" author feature | conceptualized, shot, and edited video, and wrote copy for social

"We Believe in Books" long-form video | conceptualized, produced, edited video as part of Business Book Awards party/promotion

Interview with Paige McClanahan, author of The New Tourist | promotional copy, graphics, and interview questions

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I've been writing about myself and the world around me since I was old enough to be on Tumblr, and thanks to my acceptance into the UW-Milwaukee Honors College, I was able to continue honing my writing skills throughout my time at the university. I continue writing reflective, observational, and researched essays on my Substack.

 

select essays:

PERSONAL ESSAY MEMOIR | Frames: A Memoir by Gabriella Cisneros

ESSAY | In Spanish, the word for alone is the same as the word for lonely

INSTAGRAM POST | Impermanence

GRIEF ESSAYS | Paper Boxes Are Not For Shipping Dead Bodies

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