About
Juni Fisher is a multi award winning songwriter, singer, entertainer, and producer. She is also an award winning horsewoman who has trained and shown in a gambit of horse events. As a feature writer for the award winning Cumberland Trout Unlimited newspaper "Newsreel" she became a favorite among readers for her wit, and was the 2002 winner of Fly Fishing magazine's "Best Fishing Disaster (humor) contest. Her essay about a horse that changed her life,"If I Only Knew His Name" appeared in Equus magazine in June 2013. Fisher has also published articles in True West Magazine, Western Way Magazine.
Her first novel, GIRLS FROM CENTRO (Pen-L Publishing, 2018) was a top 3 finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Cather Literary award for Contemporary Fiction. She is currently pitching her second full length manuscript.
Featured Work
Girls From Centro
North of the Mexican border, survival has a price.
Teresa sells souvenirs to tourists in the marketplace in Centro, the heart of Nogales, and feeds her father’s fighting roosters. It’s all she’s ever known.
When a letter promises a better life in the United States for Teresa, her mother, and her sisters, they leave home under cover of darkness, like so many before them.
Ana, a young, single mother, cooks at a convent and orphanage until she receives an offer she can’t refuse from a wealthy employer in Arizona. She walks away from the convent, her religion, and Centro, swearing never to return.
For two women, a generation apart, a border fence and bone-littered desert are the least of what separates subsisting in Sonora from surviving in Arizona.
In her debut novel, Fisher crafts a richly textured, multi-layered story of depravity, family bonds, and sacrifice for women who dare to dream of life beyond borders.
