Yes, I wrote a book featuring a Hispanic, male, poverty-stricken gang member. Is a white, female, middle-class from a Mormon background even allowed to do that?! InD’Tale Magazine featured an article I wrote chronicling my experience writing outside my “box” during an appropriation-sensitive age.
Check out some of my blog posts about it, too.
The Mormon, the Lesbian Couple and the Scrawny Attorney
Mormons and Gays and Diversity, Oh My
I grew up in biracial California, so it’d be pretty impossible to write from my own experiences without including some diversity. But I still researched. Here are some of the books and documentaries I dug into to create the Shatter world.
