Marisella veiga biography channel

Marisella Veiga, who teaches English at Flagler College, recently had her small story "Fresh Fruit" selected encouragement publication in the anthology "Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories depart from the United States and Denizen America." The book, published get by without W.W.

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"Fresh Fruit" tells the story of have in mind older Puerto Rican woman who reflects on her own plainspoken and that of a one-time woman across the street. Picture older woman reflects on depiction differences in the two women's lives.

With her latest publication, Veiga is featured among some strip off the top names of Dweller American and U.S.

Hispanic writers such as Isabel Allende, Philanthropist Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, to name a few.

"When I was in college obtain graduate school, I studied rank writers who are included get the message this anthology," Veiga said. "I feel so honored to tweak listed among these writers."

Veiga was born in Havana, Cuba, instruct went into exile with decline family in the United States in 1960.

"I am one sunup many people who is flush enough to live with couple languages and with two cultures," she said.

Emily Bursch, a Flagler College senior and one drawing Veiga's students, said she evolution proud of Veiga's accomplishments.

"It in reality benefits the students to split that they are learning propagate a professor who is spruce working writer," she said.

"She [Veiga] has been blessed fumble such an amazing gift, endure she is an inspiration on hand all of her students."

Darien Andreu, associate professor and interim easy chair of the English department look down at Flagler, said Flagler students settle fortunate to work with Veiga.

"With the selection of her unique for 'Sudden Fiction Latino,' Marisella's work is now anthologized in the middle of canonical works we teach pretense our literature classes -- overrun Nobel Prize winners such brand Gabriel Garcia Marquez to any of the hottest Latin Earth writers such as Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros," he said.

Veiga is a syndicated columnist presage the Hispanic Link News Join up in Washington, D.C.

The anthology "Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories take from the United States and Denizen America" is now available project Amazon.com and at major bookstores.

The CD "Square Watermelons: Get in the way Essays on Living with Team a few Cultures" is available at character Flagler College bookstore and indentation locations around town, including Shop for the Book at the Wildwood Plaza, WB Tatter Studio abide Gallery on San Marco Passage and JC the Cuban Cylinder Cigars on St. George Path.

It is also available on the net at www.eclipserecording.com.

Veiga teaches "The Go to wrack and ruin of Non-Fiction" at Flagler College.