Gloria Diaz has written professionally since the early 1990s. Her work has appeared in Bust online. She has self-published three books of short fiction. Served Cold: Tales of Revenge and Redemption is available on Lulu.com. Anything for Georgetown and Other Stories, and Tickle Your Fancy are collections of erotic fiction published under the pen name of Janell Elizabeth Meyer, and are also available on Lulu.com. Previously, she freelanced for WhatzUp and wrote a humor/general interest column, “Buenos Diaz”, for the Fort Wayne Reader. She is working on her second novel, combining humor with erotic fiction, which she describes as Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Fifty Shades of Grey. She is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she still lives.

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Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.