Wordstock Festival 2011

David Marin (pronounced “marine”) is half Puerto Rican, half Irish, and all American. A media company executive by profession, he lives in California, has traveled to eleven countries, and has visited thirty-six of our fifty states. He has skydived in Arizona, water-skied on the Caribbean, and rescued olive ridley sea turtles in Costa Rica. By far the greatest adventure of his life is fatherhood.

Jessica O'Dwyer is the author of "Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir". Publishers Weekly called the book "harrowing, moving, and deftly handled".