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Casa de Maria Publisher: WRITE...REFLECT...REIMAGINE
Write…Reflect…Reimagine Ⓡ is the official podcast of Casa de María Publisher, an independent publishing house committed to amplifying diverse and underrepresented voices.
This podcast series is a sanctuary for emerging and established marginalized writers, poets, and screenwriters seeking both inspiration and practical strategies to navigate the publishing world.
Each episode features powerful conversations with published authors, visionary poets, and industry professionals who have carved their own path in a system that often overlooks their stories.
Listeners will gain access to behind-the-scenes insight, creative routines, and actionable advice—from writing residencies to manuscript pitching, self-publishing, traditional routes, and everything in between.
Casa de Maria Publisher: WRITE...REFLECT...REIMAGINE
After Survival: Choosing Voice with Author Daisy Plaza
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What happens after survival?
After the body has endured.
After the danger has passed.
When the question is no longer Can I survive this? but instead How do I speak from what I lived through?
In this episode of the Casa de María Podcast, I’m joined by Daisy Plaza, author of I Did It for Her, for a conversation about voice, authorship, and what it means to write from readiness. Together, we reflect on how the meaning of “her” has shifted over time, how a writer knows when a story is truly ready to be told, and the discipline it takes to shape lived experience into language that can hold others.
Recorded from Casa de María Publisher’s home in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, this conversation explores survival not as an ending, but as a threshold. We talk about what writing can give back, what readers who are still surviving might hear when they encounter a story like Daisy’s, and how survival evolves when it is defined not only by endurance, but by choice.
This episode is an invitation to consider voice as an act of agency, and authorship as a step beyond survival.
Content note: This episode discusses survival and lived experience. Listeners are encouraged to take what they need and leave what they are not ready for.
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