Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of Sad Girls & Other Stories and Mary of the Chance Encounters. She’s a reporter for Feather River Publishing, contributing editor for Hip Mama Magazine, and a director of Listen to Your Mother Show. She’s the co-founder of Pachuca Productions—a Latina owned theatre company. She’s currently working on a non-fiction book called Throwing the Curve: The Rise of Plus Size Alternative Modeling on the West Coast.