Maleka Fruean

About Me

I am a writer, artist, events coordinator, mother, and explorer of the world, not necessarily in that order.

Here's a bio I came up with the other day:

Maleka Fruean has a journalism degree she only recently started using, mainly as an excuse to ask people questions without it being weird. She writes fiction, poetry, and bits of non-fiction, and has been published in The Molotov Cocktail, a flash fiction journal. She studies Rastafari and feminism, eats processed food and local gourmet, and enjoys juxtapositions immensely, including her own juxtapositional origin of Slovak and Samoan descent.

Why do you write?

Inspiration fuel: coffee, time, writing groups, reading.

Why do I write? Because I love words. I have to more to say about this after more coffee.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Diane DiPrima, Audre Lorde, Anne Waldman, Ariel Gore, Diana Abu-Jaber, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Belle Boggs, Charles Yu, Haruki Murakami.