PUBLISHED WRITING PORTFOLIO

Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing
Speculative | Romance | YA | Children’s Literature
CURRENTLY, I AM WRITING: A post-apocalyptic scifi romance about a woman who wakes up with no memories and with strange new powers.


 

ARC PRESS BOOKS

I worked as a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer for ARC Press, the in-house publishing department of American Reading Company, an EdTech company that publishes children’s books and books for early readers.

I wrote, illustrated, and designed books to help children from kindergarten to middle grades learn how to read and comprehend text. The books cover a wide range of subjects including history, science, and social studies. We also publish children’s fiction books that fit in wide reading libraries. The writing of the books strictly adheres to the level standards based on the curriculum that the company promotes.

Cover image of Lola's Lumpia book by Dannah Hattaway

LOLA’S LUMPIA

Self-published at Amazon KDP.
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Do you know how to make lumpia?
What even is lumpia?
Lola's Lumpia is about intergenerational connection through cooking traditional Filipino food.
Part children’s book, part recipe book, and part Tagalog translation book, Lola’s Lumpia is a story centered on family, cooking, and love that breaks through language barriers.

Book cover image of Diaspora Ad Astra

ASHES////EMBERS

Short story published under the name Dannah Ruth S. Ballesteros
Diaspora Ad Astra:
An Anthology of Science Fiction from the Philippines
(ed. Emil M. Flores and Joseph Frederic F. Nacino, 2013)
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Joan Tan, an undocumented immigrant, is desperate to make ends meet. Working from odd job to odd job, she takes the opportunity to become a test subject for a new medicine in exchange for a hefty paycheck. Little does she know that she has willingly subjected herself to an experiment that will alter the course of her life.