Ilana Manaster is the author of Doreen, a contemporary reimagining of the Picture of Dorian Gray, from Running Press Kids, 2016. Her work has also appeared in Cosmopolitan, Reading Out Loud Podcast and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. After a decade in New York and 18 months in Barcelona, she now lives in Chicago with her family. Find me @ilanamanaster and ilanamanaster.com.
"But somehow, she recognized that I would need these songs, that they could give me something that she could not. And she was right."
By Ilana Manaster© 2014 Blunderbuss Magazine. All rights reserved.