| July 31, 2025
book inc PAL Michele Cantos chronicles the elaborate procrastination rituals we create to avoid reading our manuscripts.
Writers
Writers
Michele Cantos Garcia
Biography
Michele Cantos Garcia is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hispanic Executive, Next Gen Collective, and The Brevity Blog. She has profiled Kamala Harris and other leading figures in business, politics, and culture. Michele is currently revising a memoir manuscript, drafting a novel, and teaching memoir with Project Write Now and book inc, where she also writes the craft-focused column titled, the Book Writing Diaries.
Website: www.michelecantosgarcia.com
Instagram: @michelecantosgarcia
LinkedIn: @michelecantos
| June 12, 2025
book inc PAL Michele Cantos discovers that incorporating humor into difficult personal stories provides emotional relief during writing. Bonus, humor makes characters more multidimensional and narrati...
| May 8, 2025
book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia chronicles her yearlong journey through the Memoir Incubator, detailing the emotional highs and lows of crafting a personal memoir.
| February 27, 2025
book inc writer Michele Cantos explains how writing her memoir about her family's immigrant journey led unexpectedly to a parallel creative awakening as she found refuge in writing a novel.
| January 23, 2025
After leaving Brooklyn for New Jersey, book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia found the community she needed to finally complete her memoir about her undocumented family's journey.
Publications
- August 2025 | Are You Too Young to Teach Memoir? | The Brevity Blog
- September 2025 | My Writer’s Statement, Then and Now | The Brevity Blog
Profiles (Digital and Print)
- March 2023 | “Aboard Air Force Two with Vice President Kamala Harris” | Hispanic Executive
- March 2023 | “Editor’s Letter: ‘Dare to Be First:’ Introducing the 2023 Leading Latinas and the Kamala Harris Cover” | Hispanic Executive
- July 2023 | “Editor’s Letter: Introducing Camille Vasquez” | Hispanic Executive
- July 2023 | “Fannie Mae’s First Latina CEO on Housing, Mortgages, and Latino Unity” | Hispanic Executive
Articles
- July 2023 | “Siete Foods is Funding Latina-Owned Food Businesses” | Hispanic Executive
- September 2023 | “Supercharge Your Leadership with These 7 Latino Executive Training Programs” | Hispanic Executive
- September 2020 | “Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions (and Try This Instead)” | NextGen Collective
- September 2019 | “On Being Latinx at Work” | NextGen Collective