{"id":9,"date":"2026-02-27T03:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:38:58","slug":"miguelangelotalltree-com","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"MiguelAngeloTalltree.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-Santa-Fe-Adobe-home-with-Lobo-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-Santa-Fe-Adobe-home-with-Lobo-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-Santa-Fe-Adobe-home-with-Lobo-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-Santa-Fe-Adobe-home-with-Lobo-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/miguelangelotalltree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-Miguel-Angelo-Talltree-Santa-Fe-Adobe-home-with-Lobo.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-490fa1db wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"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-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-650790e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\">Author of literary fiction exploring love, identity, and belonging across unexpected distances.<br><br><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miguel Angelo Talltree writes literary fiction that explores 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>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>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<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-650790e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:1.25rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1.25rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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>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><br><br><strong>For Literary Inquiries:<br>miguel@miguelangelotalltree.com<\/strong><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-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 style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;height:57px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d0bbbce0 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e3d1c41b wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e3d1c41b wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e3d1c41b wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull 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-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query-no-results\">\n\n<p>No posts were found.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull 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)\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author of literary fiction exploring love, identity, and belonging across unexpected distances. 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