MyMiseducation is a blog founded in 2018 by Latina writer Maria Molina where she covers film, TV, music, and books, and shares her personal experiences with self-love, personal growth, mental health, and parenting her son Sebastian who has autism. MyMiseducation looks back on growing up to explore what it means to be an “adult” when you were taught all the wrong things.

MyMiseducation is a play on Lauryn Hill’s iconic album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

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Fiction

All Souls’ Day is a coming-of-age novella about 12-year-old Jose Perez, a boy haunted—literally and emotionally—by the death of his classmate Miguel. Struggling to make sense of loss, Jose visits a haunted house with his best friend Benji the night after Halloween, only to be overwhelmed by memories of Miguel’s funeral.

Fleeing in tears, the boys are chased by the school bully into a nearby cemetery, where a ghostly voice calls out to Jose with a strange request. This eerie encounter launches them into a dangerous mission involving a deranged scientist and a promise to the dead that only Jose can keep. Available exclusively as an eBook on Kindle

Set in 1999 during the Y2K scare, Bendito is a short novel about Maritza Cruz, a young woman stuck in the shadow of her successful artist boyfriend, Omar. Frustrated by her stalled creative dreams, Maritza starts a magazine, but when it fails to gain traction, she turns to Santería for help.

At a spiritual gathering in Santa Lucia—a fictional city in Pennsylvania with a thriving Santería community—Maritza seeks guidance from a santero. But her card reading hides a critical truth, and soon, she must abandon her personal ambitions to stop a dark plan that threatens much more than her ego. Available exclusively as an eBook on Kindle

Meet the Writer

Maria Molina is of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Albert, and their son, Sebastian. She earned her BA in English with a minor in Psychology from Kutztown University in 2011. She thought of publishing a blog in 2017 when she struggled to find a platform for her writing. Feeling down about diverting from her creative writing dreams, she picked up her pen after years of not writing and created a blog where she could take the first step in reclaiming the person she wanted to be—a writer. It wasn’t until the birth of her son in 2018 that Maria decided to take her writing seriously, feed her literary passions, and fulfill her calling. Email her with any questions or comments here.


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