Marcela Landres helps writers become well-published authors by editing their manuscripts and educating them about the book business. Past clients include Elba Iris Perez, author of the USA Today bestseller The Things We Didn’t Know and Daniel Jose Older, author of the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper. She is the publisher of the award-winning e-zine Latinidad® which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer’s Digest.
Formerly, Marcela was an editor at Simon & Schuster where she acquired and edited the bestselling authors Karen Rauch Carter and Dora Levy Mossanen. A co-founder of The Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference, she has served as a Literature Grant Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, on the Advisory Board of Kweli Journal, and as a judge for the Beyond Margins Award for PEN. A member of the Women’s Media Group, she speaks frequently for organizations such as the Miami Book Fair and Columbia Journalism School. The media, including The Huffington Post and NBC News, have quoted her as a publishing expert.
Raised in the projects of Long Island City, Queens by Ecuadorian immigrant parents, Marcela now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and very verbal daughter.
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