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         Rachel Huerta 

Helene Simkin JaraI have been writing since the 3rd grade when I wrote a book and gave it to a teacher who I thought hated me. I hoped if I gave her that book, she would be nice to me. It didn’t work. I guess I have ADHD of writing because I write short stories, poems, plays and non-fiction. Being in a writing group where we take turns giving a prompt each week helps me gather many short stories. They are often, but not always a tad autobiographical. My memoir, Life on the Stand, was written when I was very bored living in Monterey. I thought hearing about being an artist model in the seventies would be at the very least amusing. The book True Doll stories emanated from watching my ex-mother-in-law comb a blonde Barbie on my back porch. To me she was a beautiful, round, brown Mexican women who had stiff legs like the Barbie she was about to make a new dress for and sell for 5 pesos in the flea market in Guadalajara. I interviewed her about her life. I then got the idea to interview men and women about their childhood experiences with dolls. Their stories just poured out of them and onto a page or two in my book. I am motivated to give people a voice who might otherwise not have ever been given the chance to tell their story.
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Bio

Rachel Huerta is an English major, former Youth Poet Laureate, and a sophomore at Cabrillo College. She has two ill-behaved orange cats, performs music in unconventional places, and was once a featured speaker alongside Dolores Huerta (no relation, only wishful thinking).

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