Another cool video, another sparkly invitation to preorder my new novel OFELIA AND NORMA about sisterhood, body image, and revenge.

Life in Málaga—All about books | Donna Miscolta It’s been a particularly literary and bookish month. La Feria de Libros Antiguos had a two-week run on Alameda Principal. Booksellers from various Andalucian cities displayed rare, used, and new books...

This month’s blog post includes the historic literary magazine begun by writers in the years before the Spanish Civil War, books purchased at the Feria de Libros Antiguos, and a photo to mark three years in Spain. donnamiscolta.com/2026/03/26/l...

I’m grateful to the writers whose words in support of my new novel shimmer with understanding. Some are shared in this video. Others will appear in videos to come. For this one, if I were to take a single word from each of these quotes, they would be these: power, joy, unforgettable.

Authors Interviewing Characters: Donna Miscolta - Women Writers, Women's Books by Donna Miscolta Ofelia and Norma Publication date: September 29, 2026 Available for pre-order now. In community college, large-bodied twin sisters Ofelia and Norma struggle for a sense of self. When...

One of the questions I ask my protagonists in this interview I conduct with them: "Except for Gabe, the men in your story seem to be befuddled, emotionally arrested, or misogynistic. Do you see them as an accurate reflection of society?" booksbywomen.org/authors-inte...

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Life in Málaga—Hey, look at me! It’s been the month of Carnaval, the month of new connections, and the month that begins the hey-look-at-me prelude to the release of my new book. Let’s start with hey, look at me! My new book, my fou...

This month’s blog post isn’t just about my book. Find out what a chirigota is. Also, see the photo of a truck with a police escort traveling on a Spanish highway. What’s inside the truck? Hint: Picasso conditioned its return to Spain upon the return of democracy. donnamiscolta.com/2026/02/26/l...

My new book! Pub date September 29, 2026. Available for pre-order now.

It's about body image and stereotypes and the cruelty that accompanies them. It’s about sisterhood and about recognizing one’s own strength and power. It’s about claiming one’s space in the world.

I’ve been online friends with Sion Dayson since our books came out with Jaded Ibis Press, six years ago. We met in person today in Valencia, Spain where she lives. We failed to document the moment with a photo. But here are our author photos side by side like friends on the Jaded Ibis Press website.

Life in Málaga—Mujeres I belong to a group of women that meets every couple of weeks to converse mainly in Spanish. Diana, the group’s originator, is the only one that is fully bilingual having been raised in a Spanish-spea...

This post is about women learning about women. And a little bit about good food. donnamiscolta.com/2026/01/28/l...

Yes, because who doesn't enjoy emptiness, fatigue, and disillusionment? Seriously, though, it's a good portrait of the superficiality of our work in a consumptive world and how we can lose a sense of self.

A woman in red hangs with her lower body out the window and her lower body dangling loosely inside an empty room with blue walls and pinkish floor. It's the bookcover of the novel El descontento by Beatriz Serrano.

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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

Life in Málaga—Namedropping, Boxing Day, and travel recap I’m a name-dropper here in Málaga. A couple of months ago, I tagged along with my friend Fiona to a book discussion group where everyone described a book they’d read recently. The mention of one book ...

In which I namedrop @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, Claire Dederer, and Tessa Hulls, and I attend a lunch that lasts eight hours. donnamiscolta.com/2025/12/29/l...

Life in Málaga—Bilingual baby, books, and fall It’s a walk in the park, a stride across an empty street, as easy and pure as a toddler pushing a toy stroller. It’s my granddaughter’s unconscious switching between Spanish and English. It’s what I e...

About my bilingual granddaughter and a bit about books, including wonderful new books from Alan Lau and @lisaborders.bsky.social. donnamiscolta.com/2025/11/28/l...

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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Mixed media artwork. A vintage New Mexico postcard with regional motifs filling bold block letters, overlaid with torn strips from a printed photo of a young boy smiling on a bike. The edges are bordered by fragments of old, handwritten letters.

Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is hot off the press. ✨

WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.

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A hand hovering an acupuncture needle above a medical doll.

"I’m a seventy-year-old woman who in her thirties exercised her bodily autonomy in choosing twice not to be pregnant."

Contributor @misdonnacolta.bsky.social was published by @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social buff.ly/ndCluC3 and featured in The Overturning Anthology: buff.ly/0d4SrxS

Living in Málaga—Crying while learning Spanish (and triumphing) Learning Spanish has always come with an emotional element for me. But I hadn’t cried while learning Spanish until this month. I took the insane step of signing up for a creative writing workshop at t...

What happens when you sign up for a creative writing class in a language you're still learning? donnamiscolta.com/2025/10/31/l...

Ordinary - Hypertext Magazine Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion. This observation is from Fernando, my acupuncturist in Málaga, Spain where I live now, where I’ve turned over a new life. Not that my old life was deprave...

"Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion." www.hypertextmag.com/ordinary/
These are the opening lines to my short essay "Ordinary." You can read it here and it also appears in the anthology THE OVERTURNING - Writers respond to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

We're so excited to celebrate the release today of Lisa Borders' LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, a "deliciously deranged cri de coeur." Happy #bookbirthday, Lisa! regal-housepublishing.mybigcommerce.com/last-night-a...

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Life in Málaga—with jaunts to Brussels, Paris, Nantes September brought another opportunity for travel, starting with Brussels, where in addition to ogling the sites such as the Grand-Place above, I attended the European Writers Salon yearly conference. ...

In September I spent a third of my life in Málaga outside of Málaga. donnamiscolta.com/2025/09/28/l...

Bookshelfie Review, Residents of the Deep

Residents of the Deep is a gripping yet at times unsettling collection of short fiction that moves fluidly between myth and history. It is in short a collection of surreal short stories, anchored in the history of the Philippines yet unafraid to dip into…

An Excerpt from Lisa Borders’s New Novel, Last Night at the Disco - - -In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influ...

LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO drops three weeks from today, and I’m thrilled to share this excerpt via the good folks at @mcsweeneys.net.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

Life in Málaga—A retreat, France, racism. Oh, and Feria. August in Málaga means Feria, when women don traditional Flamenco dresses and accessorize with flowers, fans, and shawls, when countless bottles of the sweet Cartojal wine are poured, and song and dan...

A hot and busy August that began with sheep and ended with Flamenco dresses. donnamiscolta.com/2025/08/26/l...

Life in Málaga—A Book, a Movie, a Friend, a Retreat It’s the end of July and I’m posting this from northern Spain in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where the weather is cool and rainy—a nice change from the high temperatures in Málaga, where I spent af...

I end the month at a writing retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees. donnamiscolta.com/2025/07/30/l...

So this made my day.