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Desiree Prieto Groft’s work has appeared in Newsweek, Huffington Post, and Rome Today. She also had a print column and blog at the San Antonio Current and contributed to the Emmy award-winning NBC Chicago Street Team. You can read her #1 Amazon bestselling novel now: Girl, Unemployed.

Writing Your Own Process

As an indie author and alumna, I was honored to be interviewed by The New School!

Huge thanks to Camilla Marchese Gonzalez and Lori Lynn Turner for the opportunity to reconnect with current students and the community.

We talked about high vs. low culture, what it means to be a real writer, and my wonderful thesis advisor, Susan Cheever, who continues to inspire my work. Her new book, When All the M

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Published on November 24, 2025 06:00
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“They say it takes a village to raise a child. I think it takes a village to raise an adult. We have to lift each other up.”
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“And then I had an epiphany. They say it takes a village to raise a child. I think it takes a village to raise an adult. We have to lift each other up.”
Desiree Prieto Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“And this nonsense about coming of age once? I think we come of age over and over again with every passing decade.”
Desiree Prieto Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering—because you can’t take it all in at once.” —Audrey Hepburn”
Desiree Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“And this nonsense about coming of age once? I think we come of age over and over again with every passing decade.”
Desiree Prieto Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“Anybody can be successful during the great times, right? But that’s not success to me. I think success might have something to do with conquering the world even through the hardest of hardships.”
Desiree Prieto Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering—because you can’t take it all in at once.” —Audrey Hepburn”
Desiree Groft, Girl, Unemployed

“They say it takes a village to raise a child. I think it takes a village to raise an adult. We have to lift each other up.”
Desiree Groft, Girl, Unemployed

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