{"id":11,"date":"2018-03-05T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mangamavencom.wordpress.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2023-07-09T01:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:21:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/test.mangamaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mangabigwitch.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"MangaBigWitch\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mangabigwitch.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mangabigwitch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mangabigwitch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mangabigwitch-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgana Santilli is the former manga buyer and manga manager for a comic book shop in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently the Sales &amp; Marketing Coordinator at Yen Press, one of North America\u2019s most well-known and respected manga publishers. Morgana has been reading manga for most of her life, and is deeply interested in the manga and comics industries, both in the United States and abroad.\u00a0 She has written for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazing Stories Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mary Sue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comics Beat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anime Feminist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as had an essay on manga retail included in the CBLDF publication <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Sell Comics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgana lives with her husband, James, their two kids, and their two black cats in Northeastern Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor of the Arts from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.\u00a0 Other than reading manga, she enjoys drawing, listening to a lot of post-punk, owning too many tubes of lipstick, and shuffling books from one surface to another in her tiny apartment.\u00a0 She will likely never leave New England because she loves the autumn too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more thoughts on comics, motherhood, general bookishness, and more,\u00a0 you can follow Morgana on Instagram and Threads (@morgana.rhalina).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgana Santilli is the former manga buyer and manga manager for a comic book shop in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently the Sales &amp; Marketing Coordinator at Yen Press, one of North America\u2019s most well-known and respected manga publishers. Morgana has been reading manga for most of her life, and is deeply interested in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}