VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
TAYLOR: Without a doubt, seeing the wonderful Sandra B. Alcosser feed pizza to a stray cat after a poetry event. I think it was a stray, but I’m just not sure. Do people bring cats to literary events? I feel like that should be a thing.
Laura Taylor Namey is a Cuban-American Californian who can be found haunting her favorite coffee shops, drooling over leather jackets, and wishing she was in London or Paris. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two teens. This former teacher writes young adult novels about quirky teens learning to navigate life and love. Her debut, The Library of Lost Things will be published 10/08/19 from Inkyard Press / HarperCollins. Her Cuban own voices young adult contemporary is coming fall 2020 from Atheneum Simon and Schuster.
Come see Laura read at La Bodega Gallery in San Diego on Saturday, September 21 at 7pm