2022 Pasadena City College Writer in Residence Juanita E. Mantz, author of “Tales of an Inland Empire Girl,” will hold Writing Workshop and Public Reading and Q&A with PCC students and the PCC community on Thursday, Oct. 13, 1 to 2 p.m. at PCCs Creveling Lounge.
Juanita E. Mantz is a writer, a USC Law educated lawyer, performer and podcaster. Her “Tales of an Inland Empire Girl” was published by Los Nietos Press in January 2022 and her hybrid chapbook, “Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender: or how I became a punk rock lawyer,” was released by Bamboo Dart Press in 2021.
Mantz recently won a Gold Medal for the Mariposa Award at the International Latino Book Awards 2022. Also known as JEM, Mantz has been published widely in literary journals, magazines and anthologies. She is an alum of the Macondo and VONA Writing Workshops and has presented at UCR Writers Week, Pasadena LitFest, the UCR Punk Conference, AWP and Beyond Baroque. She produced the ASA 2020 Freedom Course on Combatting Mass Incarceration.
JEM is in the low residency MFA program at the University of New Orleans (UNO) and works as a deputy public defender in Riverside County in mental health. On her “Life of JEM” live video podcast, she interviews writers.
To find out more about her, visit https://juanitaemantz.com.
For more information about Thursday’s event, contact Professor Emily Fernandez at the above number or email at efernandez13@pasadena.edu.
