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Latino Book Review Presents
by Latino Book Review
Latino Book Review Presents — a podcast focused on bringing you the best of Latinx literature.
Episodes
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Latino Book Review Presents Alfredo Ávalos
Alfredo Ávalos is a cultural promoter, writer, and editor. He is a bridge-builder between literary communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. He is currently the community and culture coordinator at UNAM San Antonio and the founder of Letras en la Frontera. His work explores the...
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Latino Book Review Presents Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the first Latina ever to hold this position. She is the author of several acclaimed collections, including Startlement: New and Selected Poems. Her work explores grief, wonder, tenderness, and what it means to be fully present on...
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Latino Book Review Presents Reyna Grande
Rayna Grande is an award-winning author. She is widely recognized as one of the most impactful voices of Latinx literature today. Her work explores migration, coming-of-age, and the complicated beauty of belonging.
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Latino Book Review Presents Rossy Lima
Rossy Lima is a writer, scholar, translator, and community leader whose work has been published in multiple languages across several countries. She began her career in literature as an undocumented writer, and she is the Executive Director of Latino Book Review. Her poetry has been nationally...
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Latino Book Review Presents Carmen Tafolla
Carmen Tafolla is an educator, storyteller, artist, and scholar with a Ph.D. in bilingual education. She has written over 40 books and has presented her work in several continents. She was the first poet laureate of the city of San Antonio, the first Latina to be named president of the Texas...
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Latino Book Review Presents Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo is a Chicana and feminist writer whose career has inspired people for several decades. She has received many awards for her writings, including the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been selected for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Her work has been the object of…
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Latino Book Review Presents Diana Lopez
Diana Lopez is a graduate of the MFA program at Texas State University. She was a middle school teacher and a university professor. Her middle-grade books are read in schools across the United States. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Diana talks about the state of children's literature…
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Latino Book Review Presents Erika Denise Edwards
Erika Denise Edwards is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has conducted research about race and gender in Argentina and has been instrumental in reigniting the conversation of colorism and blackness in Latin America. She is the author…
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Latino Book Review Presents Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a professor of creative writing at St. Mary's University in California. He is one of the founders of Undocupoets, an organization that helped remove the requirement of U.S. citizenship in several major first-book poetry awards. He is regarded as one of the most...
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Latino Book Review Presents Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Muñoz is a first-generation college student who graduated from Harvard University and received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Cornell University. He has also been recognized with multiple awards and is a professor at the University of Arizona. In this interview with…
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Latino Book Review Presents Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican author who has lived in the Bronx for most of her life. Before becoming a recognized writer, she spent decades working as a teacher and as a librarian in the New York City public school system. She has received multiple awards, and she is recognized for...
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Latino Book Review Presents Estela González
Estela González is a binational and bilingual immigrant writer. She is a Latina who writes about the environment, class, and gender. She is a 2019 finalist in the Louise Meriwether Prize by Feminist Press. She is also a university professor who teaches creative writing at Middlebury College in...
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Latino Book Review Presents Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez is a New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award Finalist, and the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Chair at DePaul University in Chicago. She has been praised as one of the most accomplished young Latina writers of our time. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Erika…
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Latino Book Review Presents Meg Medina
Meg Medina is a multifaceted author. She writes picture books, middle-grade stories and young adult fiction. In 2019, she won the prestigious John Newbery Medal, and she has won a long list of other awards. She is a New York Times Best Selling Author. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Meg...
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Latino Book Review Presents Angela Cervantes
Angela Cervantes is one of the most prolific children's authors of our time. She writes books for middle school children, and she started writing her stories at the age of nine. Her stories focus on Latina main characters, and they have been praised everywhere. In this interview with Héctor…
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Latino Book Review Presents Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is one of the most influential Latinx authors of all time. She is regarded by many as the main reference in Latinx and Chicano literature. She has sold millions of books, and her work has been translated all over the world. Her book, The House of Mango Street, is a popular reading...
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Latino Book Review Presents Tony Diaz
Tony Diaz is a writer, activist and professor. He was the first Chicano to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He is also a political analyst with his own radio show, and his work has been published by multiple national media outlets. He is the...
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Latino Book Review Presents Christopher Carmona
Christopher Carmona is the interim director of Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an author of poetry and fiction. He is the author of the saga El Rinche: The Ghost Ranger of the Rio Grande, an acclaimed story that reimagines the Lone Ranger as a Chicano...
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Latino Book Review Presents Kianny N. Antigua
Kianny Antigua is a bilingual author specialized in children's literature. She was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the U.S. when she was a teenager, and today she is a writer and a senior lecturer at Dartmouth College. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Kianny Antigua talks about…
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Latino Book Review Presents Felicia Rose Chavez
Felicia Rose Chavez is an educator and nonfiction writer who has revolutionized classrooms across the United States. Her work and her teaching techniques have been recognized with multiple awards. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Felicia Rose Chavez talks about her book titled The…
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Latino Book Review Presents Natalia Molina
At a time when the U.S. society is reckoning with systemic racism, Natalia Molina from USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences sheds light on how the concept of race is made in America. Dr. Molina is one of the top scholars working on race, history and Latinx studies. She is also an...
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Latino Book Review Presents Alberto Ledesma
Alberto Ledesma can be considered one of the early Dreamers in the United States. He currently works as Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley. He is also a writer and cartoonist and has published an illustrated book titled Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer. In this…
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Latino Book Review Presents Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez is one of the most recognizable faces in Latinx literature. She has won the Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, and in 2013 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts from the President of the United States. In this interview with Héctor "Vale" Rendón, Julia...
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Latino Book Review Presents Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa has been a journalist for nearly 30 years. She has won multiple awards, including four Emmy Awards and two Kennedy Awards for excellence in journalism. She is the host of the radio show Latino USA distributed by NPR, and she is the founder of Futura Media. In this interview with…
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Latino Book Review Presents Oswaldo Estrada
Oswaldo Estrada is a writer and a full professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has won multiple awards and, most recently, edited a short story book titled Incurables. In this conversation with Vale, he talks about his work as an...
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Latino Book Review Presents Carlos Aguasaco
Carlos Aguasaco is a poet, a storyteller and an associate professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at The City University of New York. In this interview with Vale Rendón, he speaks about his origins in Colombia, his trajectory as a poet, El Chapulín Colorado, his poetry book The New York City...
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Latino Book Review Presents Kelly Lytle Hernández
MacArthur Fellow, Kelly Lytle Hernández, is one of the leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration in the United States. In this interview with Vale Rendón, she speaks about her book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965…
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Latino Book Review Presents Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is an international, award-winning, and best-selling author. She is the author of 23 books that have been translated into 42 languages and have sold over 74 million copies worldwide. She is the recipient of numerous recognitions including 15 international honorary doctorates and…
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Latino Book Review Presents Amyra Leon
Amyra Leon is an author, musician, playwright, and activist. Her work transcends genre and medium and focuses on black liberation, politics, and communal healing. In this interview with Vale Rendón, Amyra shares about her book, Concrete Kids, her encounter with language, memories, communal…
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Latino Book Review Presents Kali Fajardo
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a collection of eleven short stories that reflect the realities of women from different backgrounds. In this interview with Vale Rendón, Kali Fajardo-Anstine speaks about the women and Native Americans in her stories, her cultural…
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Latino Book Review Presents Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is a renowned writer and professor in the Latinx scene. In this interview with Vale Rendón, Cristina Rivera speaks about her creative and academic work, the multidisciplinary elements that make up her writing, her role as a professor and director of the Ph.D. Creative…
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Latino Book Review Presents Chanel Cleeton
Chanel Cleeton is a Cuban American, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. In this interview with Toloo Riazi, Chanel Cleeton talks about her book The Last Train to Key West, her family's stories about Cuba, the roles of women and history in her novels, and more.
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Latino Book Review Presents Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres is a renowned and beloved Puerto Rican author scholar. In this interview with Vale Rendón, Mayra Santos-Febres talks about the origins of her writing career, her creative process, what it means to be artist and public figure, her life as a writer, and more.
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