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When Anna Priemaza, 32, was young, someone asked her what she wanted to be.
“I told them I wanted to be a writer, not as my main career, but on the side,” she said. “My dad, especially, was very big on making sure you have a stable career. And even at the age of seven, I knew that ‘writer’ was not a stable career.”
Priemaza always wrote for fun — poetry, songs, short stories. But it wasn’t until she finished law school that she started to write in