Junot Diaz

From the Belly to the Throat by Melissa R. Sipin

From the Belly to the Throat by Melissa R. Sipin

From the lovely Dawn Davis, I learned an agent’s name who would be interested in my Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) stories, and when our session was finished, she called me back on stage and said, “I read your first paragraph, Melissa, and I loved it. Make sure you tell XXX that I sent you, and I’d be interested in publishing your manuscript.”