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BERNA DA’COSTA

YEARS AS MENTEE: 2

GRADE: Junior

HIGH SCHOOL: Stuyvesant High School

BORN: Goa, India

LIVES: Bronx, NY

MENTEE’S ANECDOTE: The end of last year was brutal to me; I was dragging myself out of it in pieces. I stopped writing for a long time, I stopped reading, I stopped going to Girls Write Now workshops, and I stopped meeting my mentor, wonderful, wonderful Jamie. Not everything has subsided completely yet, but I push through each week and wait to sit at the little mint-green booth stuffed into the corner of Financier Patisserie, eat too many hazelnut macarons, freak out about rain sometimes, and write with Jamie.

JAMIE SERLIN

YEARS AS MENTOR: 2

OCCUPATION: Director, West Wing Writers, LLC

BORN: Philadelphia, PA

LIVES: Brooklyn, NY

MENTOR’S ANECDOTE: Whether she is writing poetry or prose, memoir or fiction, Berna writes in a voice that is unmistakably her own. She refuses capital letters. She is fond of parentheses. She has the gift all great writers possess—the ability to find meaning, and humor, and wonder in the ordinary, like missing your bus stop and walking the rest of the way home. Reading Berna’s work is like taking a trip inside her head. I feel lucky to peek around inside her world.