Hello! My name is Noemi Saucedo. At The Talon, I am a writer and photographer for MSJC’s Student Newspaper. My major is in communications, and I aim to transfer to a university for media and cultural studies. Much of my work is reflective of and nostalgic for my upbringing in the small-town suburbs of California as a first-generation Mexican-American child. From a young age, I was drawn into the imaginary worlds offered through storybooks and movies. Such interests have followed me into young adulthood, translated as an adoration for literature, poetry, film, music, and art. In my work for the student paper, I search for stories that will resonate with creatives and media lovers in my local community “I invented a life for myself, so at least I’d live somehow.” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground