Natashia Deón

Natashia Deónis the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel, GRACE (Counterpoint Press), and is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices fellowship. Recently named one of LA’s “Most Fascinating People” in L.A. Weekly’s People Issue, Deón is a lawyer, law professor, and the creator of the popular LA-based reading series Dirty Laundry Lit.


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Placerita Canyon

This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. North of Los Angeles, there is a canyon. It was once occupied by Tataviam Native Americans who hunted and gathered across it until the area was claimed, first by the Mexican government, then the United States. And there, in […]