8 Authors to Read This Hispanic Heritage Month

¡Feliz Hispanic Heritage Month a todos!

All year long, we here at Latinx in Publishing are committed to promoting literature by, for, and about Latinx people, but we find it especially important during this month. …. ….

Read on for our list of 8 authors that should be on your radar this Hispanic Heritage Month!

 

MAYRA SANTOS FEBRES | Puerto Rican

Our Lady of the Night

CARMEN RITA WONG | Dominican and Chinese

Why Didn’t You Tell Me

CARLOS YUSHIMITO | Peruvian and Japanese

Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late

MIA SOSA | Brazilian and Puerto Rican

The Wedding Crasher

OLIVIA ABTAHI | Iranian and Argentinian

Perfectly Parvin

MARIE VIEUX-CHAUVET | Haitian

Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych

REV. DR. ROBERT CHAO ROMERO | Chinese and Mexican

Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/O Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

NAIMA COSTER | Afro-Dominicana

What’s Mine and Yours

 

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