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Nerd Jeopardy! with Edan Lepucki & Jazmina Barrera

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This week’s guest authors are the wonderful Edan Lepucki, who has edited the new anthology Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them, and Jazmina Barrera, author of On Lighthouses!


Edan Lepucki is the creator of the popular Instagram @MothersBefore. She is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17 and cohost of the podcast Mom Rage. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media, such as Nexos, Este País, Dossier, Vice, El Malpensante, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.