In this session, authors Angie Cruz and Terri-Lynn Defino will introduce us to their later-in-life protagonists and explore why they chose to feature mature women facing big life changes.
Angie Cruz is the author of the novels "Soledad," "Let It Rain Coffee," and "Dominicana," which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal and an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh....
Terri-Lynne DeFino was born and raised in New Jersey. She is the second of four children born to a homemaker and a then-fledgling attorney, in a Paterson, N.J. household that included two grandparents and the occasional uncle, where Sunday dinner was a given and the noise level often required earplugs....