martinareaves.com - Martina Reaves

Description: Martina Reaves's (Berkeley, CA author) book, "I'm Still Here" will be published April 2020. It's about young adulthood in the 1960s and 1970s in California, coming out in the 1980s, having a child with her wife Tanya in the 1980s during the early wave of lesbian parenting, living with a terminal diagnosis of tongue cancer, and miraculously surviving.

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I grew up in a Navy family and lived in thirty-four places before I finally settled in my current home in Berkeley with my wife, Tanya, and our son, Cooper, who now lives in Oakland. I consider living in one place for over thirty years a major accomplishment. A lawyer who hated practicing law, I became a mediator in 1986 and worked with divorcing couples and neighbors with disputes. In 2007, I dropped writing legal documents and began writing fiction and memoir and have been at it ever since. I love creatin

BOOK PRIZES

GOLD MEDAL 2020 Grieving/Death & Dying Living Now Awards SILVER MEDAL 2020 Health/Medical Readers’ Favorite Awards FINALIST 2020 Health/Death & Dying Best Books Award FINALIST 2020 Health/Cancer Best Book Awards

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