Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You, and is the publisher of Latinidad®, an award-winning e-zine which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer’s Digest. As an editorial consultant, she helps writers get published by editing their work and advising them on how to manage their writing careers. Past clients include Daniel Jose Older, author of the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and Natashia Deon, author of the critically acclaimed Grace.
Formerly, Marcela was an editor at Simon & Schuster where she acquired and edited the bestselling authors Karen Rauch Carter and Dora Levy Mossanen, as well as oversaw the Spanish language imprint Libros en Español. In addition, she was a co-founder of The Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference and was on the Advisory Board of Kweli Journal. She has served as a Literature Grant Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts 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 National Writers Union 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 as the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants, Marcela is a graduate of Barnard College and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and very verbal daughter.
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