"The worst—the waiting. Waiting for acceptance or rejection emails on submissions, waiting for my editor to return my MS, waiting for proof copies—the endless waiting in solitude sometimes makes me question why I write. Then I look at photos of my launches or a reader contacts me or something else happens to remind me how much I love what I do."
Carmen Baca taught high school and college English for thirty-six years before retiring in 2014. Her command of English and her regional Spanish dialect contributes to her story-telling style. Her debut novel El Hermano published in April of 2017 and became a finalist in the NM-AZ book awards program in 2018.