In addition to being an intern, Alisha is the ex-CEO and current Chair at I.G. Detailing her year of unpaid internships in the dream jobs of her childhood, the book follows Alisha on her quest to figure out what might have happened if her life had taken a different path. Her story has been featured in Business Insider and Moms Don’t Have Time to Write.Īlisha is also a co-author of 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge, a culinary celebration of one of the Isle of Skye’s most exceptional hotels, and the host of the award-winning Quit Your Day Job, a new podcast that takes you behind the scenes of your dream jobs.Īlisha is a Cuban-American, born and raised in Miami who has spent her adult life in New York and London. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesĪlisha Fernandez Miranda is the author of a coming-of-middle age memoir, My What If Year, coming from Zibby Books in 2023. She likes to say that her adult children have taught her immeasurable humility. In addition to the Cintas, she has received a $5,000 Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the state of Florida for fiction writing.Īna immigrated to Miami at the age of six and lives there with her husband, David Freundlich. Her commentary has been included in several anthologies, and it also has appeared in Reader's Digest, O Magazine, Woman’s Day, The Washington Post Magazine, Parenting, and Latina.Ī syndicated columnist for the Tribune Content Agency, she has worked at The Miami Herald, The Miami News, and The Palm Beach Post as education reporter, features writer, projects writer, and editor.Īs a journalist, Ana has received several awards for her commentary and feature writing. Two of her nonfiction books about the Hispanic media were published by the The Media Institute, a think tank in Washington D.C.

In 2019 she won a Cintas Fellowship for Creative Writing for her novel-in-progress. A previous novel, The Chin Kiss King, was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC Award. Ana Veciana-Suarez is the author of several books, including the historical novel Dulcinea, the young adult novel, Flight to Freedom, and a collection of essays, Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Life, Love, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart.

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