When I did go outside, it wasn't long before I wanted to go back in again, which made my cousins laugh at me and deride me as strange and weird. I didn't care. I couldn't understand why they didn't love books as much as I did. I thought they were the weird ones. I started writing stories at 8, and finished my first collection at 10. One of my …. I think I've told a story about a strong woman, with an unusual background who overcomes her past and takes hold of her future. …

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A voice from the Islands: R.S.A Garcia talks about how she came to …