This interview is part of the Latinx Author Interview series. Danette Vigilante grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family and sweet pup, Luna. She is the author of The Trouble with Half a Moon, a 2012-2013 Sunshine State Young Readers award nominee, Saving Baby Doe, …
This interview is part of the Latinx Author Interview series. Michael Nava is the managing editor of Amble Press, an imprint of Bywater Books, which is committed to publishing diverse LGBTQ voices, particularly LGBTQ writers of color. He is also the successful author of a series of crime fiction novels featuring a gay, Latino criminal …
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered book that shows Cuba through the eyes of a native. Serguey is a young lawyer employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expecting …
This interview with Yezanira Venecia is part of a Latino Stories interview series between our Columnist, Teresa Dovalpage and Latinx editors, publishers and authors in the mystery/noir/detective genre. Venecia is Assistant Editor at Soho Press. She was born in Mission, TX. Venecia received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin, …
