{"id":15,"date":"2026-02-27T04:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:44:19","slug":"miguelangelotalltree-com-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"MiguelAngeloTalltree.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-accent-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1da03c2a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-444d5ee8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">                                                                                                                                    Author of literary fiction exploring love, identity, and belonging across unexpected distances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-with-Lobo-Santa-Fe-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-with-Lobo-Santa-Fe-1.jpg 285w, https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-with-Lobo-Santa-Fe-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d89aad35 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-549b0c86 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-119bc444 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><strong>ABOUT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Miguel Angelo Talltree writes to spotlight emotional resilience, generational memory, and the unexpected bonds that form across cultural and age divides. His work centers on characters who stand at crossroads\u2014between solitude and belonging, past and future, independence and devotion\u2014and who must decide whether love is worth the risk of being changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Rooted in landscape as much as interior life, his stories move between rural Midwest horizons and the layered histories of the American Southwest, examining how place shapes identity and how chosen family can redefine home. With a restrained yet intimate voice, Talltree writes about connection without sentimentality, intimacy without spectacle, and courage without bravado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">He is currently seeking representation for his debut novel, <em>The Shoulder of the Road<\/em>, a work of literary fiction exploring grief, resilience, and the transformative power of unexpected love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><br><br><strong>THE BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><em>The Shoulder of the Road<\/em> is a work of literary fiction centered on an unexpected relationship between a sixty-year-old Iowa farmer and a twenty-two-year-old Native American IT professional whose lives intersect at a moment neither planned for and both struggle to explain. What begins as a neutral meeting on unfamiliar ground deepens into a quiet reckoning with grief, identity, and the cost of solitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Set against the open landscapes of the Midwest and the cultural memory of the Southwest, the novel explores the tension between independence and belonging, and the courage required to choose connection over safety. At its heart, the story asks whether love\u2014arriving late, arriving differently\u2014can offer not reinvention, but recognition.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><br><strong>Literary Inquiries:<\/strong><br><br>miguel@miguelanelotalltree.com<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author of literary fiction exploring love, identity, and belonging across unexpected distances. 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