Yamile is the author of Scholastic's Blizzard Besties, the upcoming picture book Where Are You From? and many more books to come!

Find Yamile on Twitter: @YamileSMendez. Her website is YamileSMendez.com.

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Show Notes:

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Samantha Hahn

Coffee is for closers only watercolor by Samantha Hahn

Well-Read Women by Samantha Hahn

Make Art, Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career by Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Marianne Murphy's Society6 page (flamingoboots)

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Random Acts of Kittens by Yamile

On These Magic Shores by Yamile

Furia by Yamile

NaNoWriMo

Harry Potter

Martine Leavitt

Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers

Carol Lynch Williams

Cynthia Leitich-Smith

Mary Quattlebaum

Cynsations - Cynthia's blog

Yamile's agent Linda Camacho's interview on Cyn's blog (note: she has since switched agencies and has a newer interview here)

Lee & Low

New Visions Award for Authors of Color

Uma Krishnaswami

Jaime Kim - illustrator of Where Are You From?

Clarissa Wong editor of Where Are You From?

Nova Ren Suma

Elise Howard at Algonquin Books

Council of 100

Christina Bryza (Our Episode 9 guest!)

Write Out Camp

Ally Condie (Our Episode 7 guest!)

Dog Man series by Dav Pilkey

Las Musas

Robert Polk (Inteview via Bookish Babes)

Latinos in Action

Aida Salazar

Sara Faring

K.K. Perez

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

Game of Thrones

Avengers: Endgame

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