Keeping Writing Fun w. MATEO ASKARIPOUR

Author photo by Andrew “FifthGod” Askaripour.

Keeping Writing Fun w. MATEO ASKARIPOUR

Mateo Askaripour’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn. His debut novel, BLACK BUCK, was published in January 2021. (Bookshop)

Bonus Segment: Point of Telling and Addressing the Reader

Mateo talks in more detail about crafting Black Buck’s narrative voice.

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