Donna Miscolta’s short story collection Hola and Goodbye was selected by Randall Kenan for the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman and publication by Carolina Wren Press in 2016. It won the 2017 Independent Publishers gold medal for Best Regional Fiction - West Pacific and is a finalist for an International Latino Book Award. Miscolta is also the author of the novel, When the de la Cruz Family Danced (Signal 8 Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including the anthology Memories Flow in Our Veins: Forty Years of Women’s Writing from Calyx. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress The Education of Angie Rubio appear in The Adirondack Review and Santa Ana Review. She has received grants and fellowships from 4Culture, Artist Trust Fellowship, the Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the City of Seattle, and residencies from Anderson Center, Artsmith, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.