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 …
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 …
Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s short story collection, When Trying to Return Home, takes complex characters and situations and weaves them into a tapestry that provides the reader with an emotional journey. The collection demonstrates McCauley’s dexterity as a writer as she shifts voices, styles, and points of view. In McCauley’s first book, Scar On / Scar …
In her collection of essays, For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez speaks to the experiences of “Brown Girls” through a critical feminist lens. Bringing a fresh perspective as a Nicaraguan American she broadens Latinx feminist writing, which often center the experiences …
Hay ocasiones felices en las que un libro me lleva de vuelta a La Habana. Me lleva de la mano, del pie o metiéndome, con todo y cabeza, en el ambiente cálido, gritón y el aire medio sucio de la ciudad. Es el caso de Muerte en La Habana (Vanilla Planifolia, 2021), del profesor de …
