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Anika Fajardo

Biography

Anika Fajardo

Anika Fajardo is an award-winning writer born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. Her debut novel, THE MANY MOTHERS OF DOLORES MOORE, is forthcoming fall 2025. She is also the author of the middle-grade books WHAT IF A FISH and MEET ME HALFWAY, as well as the memoir MAGICAL REALISM FOR NON-BELIEVERS.

With a Masters in Library Science, she is a former librarian and also the founder of the author collective, MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators. When she’s not writing, find her teaching at Augsburg University’s MFA program or interviewing authors on her podcast "Gobblefunking with Words." Anika lives with her family in Minneapolis. 

Anika Fajardo

Books by Anika Fajardo

by Anika Fajardo - Fiction, Magical Realism, Women's Fiction

In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a 35-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That is, except for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And they’re only amplifying Dorrie’s doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia. Fresh off a breakup with her long-term boyfriend, laid off from her job as a cartographer, and facing a daunting inheritance of her mothers’ aging Minneapolis Victorian and two orange tabbies, how can she possibly leave the country now? But when an old flame offers to housesit, the chorus agrees that there’s no room for excuses. Armed with only a scrap of a hand-drawn map, Dorrie sets off to find out where --- and who --- she came from.