Anika Fajardo

The last time I had crêpes had been years ago. My mother used to make them out of buckwheat flour and fill them with broccoli, cream sauce and cheese. I remember her rolling them up and placing them row by row into a glass baking pan, transforming a French delicacy into a Minnesota casserole. - excerpt from Eating Crêpes in Colombia

ANIKA FAJARDO is a writer, librarian, mother and avid cook. Her book reviews of women’s fiction appear regularly in Library Journal, and she has published work for the American Library Association, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and in various library-related publications. Most recently, her writing earned second place for nonfiction in The Talking Stick 18 and has been featured online in Frostingwriting, Midway Journal, and apt: an online literary journal.

In 2009 she was a winner of the Loft Literary Center’s Latino Inroads Mentorship and the Loft’s Mentor Series in Creative Nonfiction Prose. At present, she is working intensely with authors J.C. Hallman, Shannon Olson, Judith Kitchen, Pablo Medina, and Philip S. Bryant and Gene Yang to produce a memoir for publication. She is also a teaching artist at the Loft and on the prose advisory panel for the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.