![]() Rivera is an editor at Autostraddle, an online magazine for, about, and written by LGBTQIA+ women, non-binary people and sometimes trans men. Starting her career in performance poetry, Rivera grew inspired by stories written by black, brown and queer authors. Gabby Rivera started her career and love for literature at the age of 17 by attending a local cafe for poetry nights. Gabby Rivera attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, graduating in 2004. ![]() Rivera attended an all-girls private school in White Plains, New York. An early love of reading and writing came from her mother, a kindergarten teacher. Rivera grew up in the Bronx borough of New York City, she is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in a religious household of Pentecostal evangelicalism. Gabby Rivera was born to Martha and Charles Rivera. Rivera is Puerto Rican and from the Bronx. Her work often addresses issues of identity and representation for people of color and the queer community, within American popular culture. ![]() She is the author of the 2016 young adult novel Juliet Takes a Breath, and wrote the 2017–2018 Marvel comic book America, about superhero America Chavez. ![]() Gabby Rivera is an American writer and storyteller. ![]()
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![]() I also have an author page on Goodreads where I do a lot of book reviews. A complete list with links can be found on my Books page. I now have a good-sized backlist in ebooks and print, both free and professionally published. I’ve been delighted by the reception Mac and Tony have received. I have a weakness for closeted cops with honest hearts, and teachers who speak their minds, and I had fun writing the four novels and three freebie short stories in the series. My first professionally published book, Life Lessons, came out from MLR Press in May 2011. My husband finally convinced me that after all that time writing for fun, I really should submit something, somewhere. ![]() I mainly publish M/M romance (with added mystery, fantasy, historical, SciFi…) I also have a few Young Adult stories released under the pen name Kira Harp. I’ve been writing for far longer than I care to admit (*whispers – forty years*), mostly for my own entertainment. ![]() Minnesota’s a kindly, quiet (if sometimes chilly) place and it’s home now. I live in Minnesota, where the two seasons are Snow-removal and Road-repair, where the mosquito is the state bird, and where winter can be breathtakingly beautiful. “Kaje” is pronounced just like “cage” – it’s an old nickname. ![]() ![]() Over the following decade, the four sisters:sweet, naive Louise ambitious Pauline complacent Diane, and cunning Marie Anne, will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best foot - and women - forward. Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. ![]() Their scandalous story is stranger than fiction but true in every shocking, amusing, and heartbreaking detail. ![]() Goodreads says, " Set against the lavish backdrop of the French Court in the early years of the 18th century, The Sisters of Versailles is the extraordinary tale of the five Nesle sisters: Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne, four of whom became mistresses to King Louis XV. ![]() ![]() ![]() May learned that, unlike her mother, she needed to look at what she had-her grandfather and a gift for beekeeping-rather than what was missing. ![]() It was through the honeybees, she writes, that “I learned to persevere.” Leaving for college was a turning point for her: it was then that her mother shared her own history of physical abuse at her father’s hands. Nicknamed “The Beekeeper of Big Sur” by his customers, he drove his retrofitted former military bus to tend to his 100 hives along the coast and provided May a fascinating education, teaching her about how bees communicate, eat, and protect their queen. But May bonded and found safety, first with her kind step-grandfather, and later with the bees he kept to produce his prized honey. May was forced to grow up fast with an increasingly unstable and neglectful mother. When her newly separated mother brought May and her brother from Rhode Island to the West Coast to live with her parents, bees were terrifying to the five-year-old. ![]() Journalist May (coauthor, I, Who Did Not Die), a fifth-generation beekeeper in San Francisco, delivers a powerful account of growing up in 1970s California. ![]() |