William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S is For. His first collection, The Art of Exile, was awarded the International Latino Book Award, an Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center and was selected for The Fifth Annual Debut Poets Round Up” in Poets …
This 2024 list includes authors nominated by their peers and their fans. In other words, some of them are la gente’s choices. Latino Stories is proud of the fact that we were the first, yes the first, to publish lists of top new Latine talent. Our first list started in 2006. Be sure to pick …
Daniel Chacón is the author of The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions (2024, Arte Publico Press. He boasts an impressive resume that includes the novel, The Cholo Tree (2017), Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013), which won both the Pen Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and the Tejas NACCS Award for Best Book of …
Luis Lopez-Maldonado is a Xicanx activist, poeta, playwright, dancer, choreographer, and educator born and raised in Southern California, as well as the the author of the poetry collection, Mexican Bird (Querencia Press, 2024). He/Him/They/Them earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside, in Creative Writing and Dance. His/Their poetry has been …
Eric Morales-Franceschini is a former construction worker, a U.S. Army veteran, and a community college graduate who now holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley. He is an assistant professor of English and Latin American studies at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is the author of the chapbook Autopsy of …
