The Top Ten Debut Latine Authors of 2025
This 2025 list is off-the-charts good. It includes authors who have impressed not just us, but also audiences and reviewers across the nation. These talented authors join an impressive list of that started in 2006, years before any other group was listing their tow authors of the year. Be sure to purchase these wonderful books anywhere they are sold.
1) Antonio Farias, author of In the Company of Wolves. Kirkus Reviews described this touching and marvelous debut as: “Languid in pace and rich in dialogue, this strongly characterized tale of self-discovery gently dissects adolescence through the lenses of war, familial lineage, and gender roles. A mellow, keenly observed coming-of-age journey.”
2) Cloud Delfina Cardona, author of the past is a jean jacket. “A mastery of the understated, an effortless shot to the heart. Within these pages I feel Courtney Love, I taste nicotine/lip gloss, and I see a writer who is in full control. This book will give you what you want, because sometimes we desperately need to be devastated, or in love, or to disappear,” says Amber Isaac, author of Peppermint.
3) María Esquinca, author of Where Heaven Sinks, the 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Winner. “María Esquinca creates poems like a journalist—well researched and properly sourced—revealing and exposing the ills and injustices all around us; but her poems are also testimonies to the way language can give our lives shape, meaning, and hope, “ boasts Maceo Montoya, author of Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces: A Novel
4) Johnie Guerra, author of The Hummingbird and the Marigold. Nominated by multiple Instagram Latino.Stories followers, this poetry collection has the attention and love of many readers who were impressed by Guerra’s lyrical talents. With that much support, this is a must read.
5) Azalea Aguilar, author of Foxhole. “Even within fragility, Foxhole finds resilience and tenderness in the cracks of instability. Love persists, quietly and insistently, and hope blooms in unexpected corners. Through intimate, lyrical imagery, these poems offer both a witness and a refuge—a portrait of survival, of navigating tension and upheaval, and of carrying forward the threads of healing in a world that feels ever precariously unstable.” boasts the publisher, Bottlecap Press.
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7) Yael Valencia Aldana, author of Black Mestiza. In Black Mestiza, Aldana writes lyrically about her Caribbean Afro-Latinx, Indigenous, Black and white roots while documenting the strength of her ancestors. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and the winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize 2023 in poetry.
8) Jared Lemus, author of Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories – A Kaleidoscopic Debut on the Ties that Connect and Constrain Us. “In this stunning collection, characters search for love, salvation, and survival in an ever-shifting landscape. With the heart, scrappiness and sense of humor that can only come from a Chapín, Jared Lemus maps out the glory and anguish of Guatemala,” praises Melissa Lozada-Oliva, author of Dreaming of You and Candelaria.
9) Violeta Garza, author of Brava. Anel I. Flores, author of Curtains of Rain & Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas, describes it as, “This book is a holy reckoning. A honeyed lament. A bold prayer … These words remind us that being too much, too tender, too jiggly is divine. If you’ve ever needed permission to weep, scream, whisper, or cackle under the covers with your soul sister, this is your scripture. BRAVA!”
10) Miriam Zoila Pérez, author of Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters. Publishers Weekly puts it the best: “Pérez utilizes compassionate and empathetic prose to explore sexuality, the Cuban diaspora, anxiety, and self-esteem as Camila grows and matures over the course of a year in this introspective debut.”
