“Sometimes he can feel the cursive handwriting on his back, sore like the first day he wore her.”
It took Loretta Lopez by surprise when she looked up to see these words from her short fiction piece “Tatoo” flash across a huge screen at Carnegie Hall in New York.
“It was really strange and surreal,” says the 17-year-old Guadalajara American School senior. “I felt really honored.”
At first, Lopez wasn’t overawed after hearing that she had won a gold medal for her piece from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, an organization that highlights the emerging talent of American teen writers.
“I didn’t realize how important it was until I went to New York City to receive the award. I had no idea.”
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