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  Date / Time: 11/2/2009 6:25 PM UTC

  PRSUN Radio chats with writer Sofia Quintero tomorrow
  

  UPDATE: THIS SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR ANOTHER DATE AND TIME. THANK YOU. TBA.

  
  

  My guest tomorrow night is writer Sofia Quintero at 9 p.m., PRSUN Radio, www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio. The show will be aired live and then archived and available online.
  
  Here's her bio:
  
  

  Aftergraduating from Columbia University with a BA in history-sociology and a MPAfrom its School of International and Public Affairs, Sofia began her firstcareer as a policy analyst and advocate, working for various nonprofitorganizations and government agencies including the Vera Institute of Justice,Hispanic AIDS Forum, and the New York City Independent Budget Office. Afteryears of working on diverse policy issues, however, Sofia heeded her muse topursue an entertainment career.
  
  Determined to write edgy yet intelligent novels for women who love hip hop evenwhen hip hop fails to love them in return, Sofía wrote her debut novel EXPLICITCONTENT under the pen name Black Artemis. Booklist said of her debut,"Fans of Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) will find thisdebut novel just as tantalizing. . ." Since then Sofia has penned two moreBlack Artemis novels (PICTURE ME ROLLIN’ and BURN) and has been by critics ofall stripes for creating stories that are both intelligent and entertaining.

  Sofiaalso writes contemporary women’s fiction under her real name. Her debut novellaTHE MORE THINGS CHANGE appears in FRIDAY NIGHT CHICAS the first chick-litanthology by and about Latinas. Her novel DIVAS DON'T YIELD was published inMarch 2006 by One World/Random House. She is also a contributing author to theanthologies NAMES I CALL MY SISTER and JUICY MANGOS.

  Sofia co-foundedChica Luna Productions to identify, develop and support other women of colorseeking to make socially conscious entertainment. Among other projects, ChicaLuna launched The F-Word, a comprehensive filmmaking institute for women ofcolor based in East Harlem in New York City and the Popular Media JusticeToolkit, a collection of resources that deconstructs images of women of colorin popular films from SET IT OFF to I LIKE IT LIKE THAT.   

  SofiaQuintero is a socially conscious entrepreneur and cultural activist devoted toelevating the quality of entertainment both through her personal initiativesand business ventures. With her business partner Elisha Miranda, she foundedSister Outsider Entertainment, a multimedia production company that isdeveloping several projects for television, film and stage including theupcoming internet series SANGRIA STREET. SOE also co-created CONSCIOUS WOMENROCK THE PAGE with Marcella Runell Hall and Jennifer Jlove Calderon. CONSCIOUSWOMEN is a cutting-edge multidisciplinary curriculum that enables sociallyconscious educators to introduce feminist hip hop fiction into their learningenvironments and use it to incite social change among their students.

  Thisfall Knopf will publish Sofia’s first young adult novel EFRAIN’S SECRET about a Latino boy in the South Bronxwho goes to questionable extremes to realize his dream of going to an Ivy Leaguecollege.
  

  
  
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