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PC: Sheila Barabad Sarmiento

Melaina Cecilia de la Cruz (she/her)

I’m a storyteller by heart and by trade. I grew up all around the US before settling in Chicago for college where I graduated from Columbia College with a BA in creative nonfiction.

Over the last decade, I’ve written, directed, and produced audio documentaries that aired on radio stations in Chicago, Minneapolis, and online; published articles, essays, poems, and short stories; interviewed countless executives in every industry and function; and once had a personal essay taught in a high school writing class that I also got to visit in person (really proud of that one).

I’m currently the senior editor at Guerrero Media where I manage the business magazines Profile and American Builders Quarterly, and outside of my day job, I love to study linguistics and write about horror on The Final Girl Reviews.