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Michael Mann: “Being mixed is like being a middle child – character-building”

Michael Mann: “Being mixed is like being a middle child – character-building”

The author on discovering identity, exciting futures and writing mixed characters

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Isabella Silvers
Oct 25, 2021
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Michael Mann: “Being mixed is like being a middle child – character-building”
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Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week, I’m speaking to Michael Mann, a teacher and author of Ghostcloud. Michael is of mixed-Indian and white-Irish heritage, similar to my own, and shared with me his excitement and caution over being mixed. Read how he brought mixed identity into his Ghostcloud characters and more thoughts on identity below.

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