Scholarship Winners
2021
Maria Dones
Maria Dones is a youth services assistant at the Palm Harbor Library and an MLIS student at the University of South Florida. She has a passion for community building through fandom, creativity, and uplifting marginalized voices. She also writes YA fiction and has short stories published in Gingerbread House, Cicada, and Bourbon Penn. Her Puerto Rican roots inspire her work, both as a librarian and writer.