Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the ebook Sad Girls & Other Stories and the audiobook Mary of the Chance Encounters, and a forthcoming collection of short stories published by Tolsun Press in 2022, Tales of Other Californias. She's the co-founder and head writer of Plumas's own Pachuca Productions-a Latina theatre duo producing original and social justice plays. She's the author of several poetry chapbooks including: The Alzheimer's Cul de Sac, When the Ground Tore Open, and You in the House of My Heart. Margaret's work has been featured in the Akashic Noir Series Santa Cruz Noir, PM Press' All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body, and on Upworthy, Juked, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among others.