#slayingfears

Slaying my fear #slayingfears #dowhatyouareafraidtodo #fearless #mommyistadiaries #amusementparkfun #momnson #mommyandson #momandson #momsongoals #mommygoals #sonandmom #dutchwonderland https://www.instagram.com/p/BzcUJSLHT2h/?igshid=tk2xagdp5vep

We're so very honored to feature writer & educator Rachelle Cruz (@rockycruzzo) next month! Rachelle Cruz is from Hayward, California. She is the author of God's Will for Monsters, which won the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize (Inlandia, 2017), Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood and co-editor with Melissa Sipin of Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in As/Us, New California Writing 2013, LARB, Yellow Medicine Review, Jet Fuel Review,The Lit Pub, The Bakery, The Collagist, Bone Bouquet, PANK, Muzzle Magazine, KCET's Departures Series, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. An Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer, she lives and writes in Southern California. You can contact her at rachelle [dot] a [dot] cruz [at] gmail.com. • Wear a costume & we'll see you at 5pm on 10/7 for our Slaying Fears Open Mic. For more info and to rsvp, visit link in bio. • #pilipinx #pilipinxamericanhxstorymonth #slayingfears #poetry #poet #educator #author #godswillformonsters #emergingfellows #kundimanfellow #vonawriter #ucriverside #filipinotown #openmic (at Historic Filipinotown of Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKve9XB52z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wl0bfmhnjgb0