Donna Miscolta
@misdonnacolta.bsky.social
Author of LIVING COLOR (WA State Book Award Finalist), HOLA AND GOODBYE, and WHEN THE DE LA CRUZ FAMILY DANCED. New novel coming 2026. Estadounidense recently relocated to Spain, now with birthright Mexican citizenship, cuz, options. donnamiscolta.com
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...
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...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
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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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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! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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! 🔥🔊
1/2
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! 🔥🔊
1/2
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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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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.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
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.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
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"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
Contributor @misdonnacolta.bsky.social was published by @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social buff.ly/ndCluC3 and featured in The Overturning Anthology: buff.ly/0d4SrxS
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"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
Contributor @misdonnacolta.bsky.social was published by @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social buff.ly/ndCluC3 and featured in The Overturning Anthology: buff.ly/0d4SrxS
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What happens when you sign up for a creative writing class in a language you're still learning? donnamiscolta.com/2025/10/31/l...
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...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What happens when you sign up for a creative writing class in a language you're still learning? donnamiscolta.com/2025/10/31/l...
"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.
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.
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...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"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.
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.
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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...
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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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.
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.
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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.
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.
In September I spent a third of my life in Málaga outside of Málaga. donnamiscolta.com/2025/09/28/l...
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. ...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In September I spent a third of my life in Málaga outside of Málaga. donnamiscolta.com/2025/09/28/l...
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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…
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…
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 surrealism. -- Maria Ashford for Bookshelfie READ MORE WOMEN! Book available here.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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…
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…
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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.
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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...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
A hot and busy August that began with sheep and ended with Flamenco dresses. donnamiscolta.com/2025/08/26/l...
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...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A hot and busy August that began with sheep and ended with Flamenco dresses. donnamiscolta.com/2025/08/26/l...
I end the month at a writing retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees. donnamiscolta.com/2025/07/30/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...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I end the month at a writing retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees. donnamiscolta.com/2025/07/30/l...
So this made my day.
Recently, there have been several stick-ups and one Axe murder (in the first Degree). Management has made no Secret of the need to increase security, but still haven’t found the Right Guard. Finding themselves underarmed, the crime wave continues to roll on.
July 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So this made my day.
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Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.
Powerful video…
Powerful video…
June 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.
Powerful video…
Powerful video…
A little about turning 72 in Marbella, a story about assassinated Barbies, and a publication date for my forthcoming book. donnamiscolta.com/2025/06/26/l...
Life in Málaga—Birthday, Book Fair, and Pub Date
Birthday I turned seventy-two this month. It’s weird being an age that seemed light-years away when I was thirty, forty, even fifty. But here I am. Seventy-two years can seem like a long time. It can ...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A little about turning 72 in Marbella, a story about assassinated Barbies, and a publication date for my forthcoming book. donnamiscolta.com/2025/06/26/l...
Hellos and goodbyes and the sparks they leave in me. donnamiscolta.com/2025/05/28/l...
Life in Málaga—Comings and Goings
People come, people go. So goes the line in the movie Grand Hotel. And so goes our lives. In Seattle, where I lived most of my adult years, I established friendships, some close, some casual. I saw so...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Hellos and goodbyes and the sparks they leave in me. donnamiscolta.com/2025/05/28/l...
I sustained a hand injury while killing a second cockroach last night. There better not be a third cockroach because I'm lousy at wielding a mop with my left hand.
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I sustained a hand injury while killing a second cockroach last night. There better not be a third cockroach because I'm lousy at wielding a mop with my left hand.
Yesterday during the blackout in Spain as I was walking down a dark stairway thinking how easily one might fall, I, of course, fell, bruising my feet and my head. Now I’m limping, but we’ve got power and back, and I finished this month’s blog which is about books. donnamiscolta.com/2025/04/29/l...
Life in Málaga—Mostly about books
The Non-Book Stuff The big event in April was Semana Santa but having witnessed the spectacle up close the two previous years, I was happy to give it and the crowds a pass this time. The only processi...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yesterday during the blackout in Spain as I was walking down a dark stairway thinking how easily one might fall, I, of course, fell, bruising my feet and my head. Now I’m limping, but we’ve got power and back, and I finished this month’s blog which is about books. donnamiscolta.com/2025/04/29/l...
We begin our third year in Málaga in a new apartment decorated French-style by its Spanish owners who have resided in France for decades. donnamiscolta.com/2025/03/30/l...
Living and Learning in Málaga—A New Apartment
This month marked two wildly contented years in Málaga. The anniversary passed with barely a nod of observance because we were in the last phases of moving to a new apartment. Though our possessions a...
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March 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We begin our third year in Málaga in a new apartment decorated French-style by its Spanish owners who have resided in France for decades. donnamiscolta.com/2025/03/30/l...
Finished the move to the new apartment, bringing the last of the plants. Still in Malaga Centro but on a smaller, quieter street.
March 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Finished the move to the new apartment, bringing the last of the plants. Still in Malaga Centro but on a smaller, quieter street.
In which I interview two Asian American entrepreneurs in Málaga who are creating community spaces and then question the description of a community in a social media post.
Málaga, Year 2—A Filipina Mexican American walks into a couple of cafés, and later into a social media tiff
Sometimes, you just need a bahn mi. One evening, starving after some event—maybe a Spanish class or a meetup with a friend—I popped into a tiny, new café which I had noticed a few days earlier. I addr...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In which I interview two Asian American entrepreneurs in Málaga who are creating community spaces and then question the description of a community in a social media post.
Carnaval began today in Malaga. Here is the Diosa del Carnaval.
February 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Carnaval began today in Malaga. Here is the Diosa del Carnaval.
It's coming up on two years of living in Spain. I take two private Spanish classes and two group classes a week (it's fun!). I listen to news podcasts in Spanish and read several pages from a novel in Spanish every day (it's elucidating!) So why am I still stumbling and bumbling when I speak?
February 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's coming up on two years of living in Spain. I take two private Spanish classes and two group classes a week (it's fun!). I listen to news podcasts in Spanish and read several pages from a novel in Spanish every day (it's elucidating!) So why am I still stumbling and bumbling when I speak?