GÜERO a Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2018
The magazine Shelf Awareness has selected They Call Me Güero for their Best Books of 2018 list!
Category: News
Cover Reveal: The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande
Today Latinxs in Kid Lit hosted the reveal of The Chupacabras of the Río Grande (book 4 of the Unicorn Rescue Society series). I’m so proud of the work Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly and I did on this one! I can’t wait for you all to meet Choopi (the young chupacabras you…
Quoted on Criminal Minds
Last night I was quoted on the show Criminal Minds on CBS. In the final moments of the show, Penelope García says the following line. “‘When wounds are healed by love / The scars are beautiful.’ David Bowles.” The words are from “Kintsukuroi,” a poem from my collection Shattering and Bricolage, which is…
GÜERO Cover Reveal
Say hola to my middle-grade poetry book They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems, featuring the amazing art and lettering of Zeke Peña, the 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Non-fiction Winner for Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide (along with author Isabel Quintero). Tomorrow I’ll reveal the wrap-around. Big shout-out…
FEATHERED SERPENT Published!
Mexican myth in the house! Today is the official publication day of FEATHERED SERPENT, DARK HEART OF SKY! PRAISE FOR THE BOOK “Bowles’ dense yet lyrical prose raises the narrative to a level suited to high mythological tradition and illuminates the foundations on which contemporary Mexican culture is laid.” —Kirkus…
Schedule for TLA and SABF
Here is my schedule for the Texas Library Association conference and the San Antonio Book Festival this week, for those attending and interested. Wednesday, April 4 Public reading at 6:30 pm at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Thursday, April 5 (Texas Library Association conference in Dallas)…
San Antonio Book Festival
This April I’ll be one of many featured authors at the San Antonio Book Festival, alongside Sandra Cisneros, Benjamín Alire Sáenz, Jorge Ramos, Carmen María Machado, Diana López, and others! Learn more by browsing the line-up on their page.
Visiting Writer
I’ve been selected as Spring 2018 Visiting Writer for Our Lady of the Lake University. Learn more on their website.
2017 Appearances
February 9, 2017—”Writing on the Frontlines of the Tex-Mex Frontera.” Panel at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Monument, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four. Washington, DC. 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm. February 14, 2017—Haunted Valentine. Presentation, reading and book signing. McAllen Public Library. McAllen,…
Co-authoring a Book with Adam Gidwitz
I can now reveal that I am one of the authors working with Adam Gidwitz on a new middle-grade series from Penguin Dutton called The Unicorn Rescue Society! Other members of the society include Joseph Bruchac, Emma Otheguy, Hena Khan, and illustrator Hatem Aly. Read Adam’s blog post for all…
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Cover Reveal: The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande
Today Latinxs in Kid Lit hosted the reveal of The Chupacabras of the Río Grande (book 4 of the Unicorn Rescue Society series). I’m so proud of the work Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly and I did on this one! I can’t wait for you all to meet Choopi (the young chupacabras you…
Quoted on Criminal Minds
Last night I was quoted on the show Criminal Minds on CBS. In the final moments of the show, Penelope García says the following line. “‘When wounds are healed by love / The scars are beautiful.’ David Bowles.” The words are from “Kintsukuroi,” a poem from my collection Shattering and Bricolage, which is…
GÜERO Cover Reveal
Say hola to my middle-grade poetry book They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems, featuring the amazing art and lettering of Zeke Peña, the 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Non-fiction Winner for Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide (along with author Isabel Quintero). Tomorrow I’ll reveal the wrap-around. Big shout-out…
FEATHERED SERPENT Published!
Mexican myth in the house! Today is the official publication day of FEATHERED SERPENT, DARK HEART OF SKY! PRAISE FOR THE BOOK “Bowles’ dense yet lyrical prose raises the narrative to a level suited to high mythological tradition and illuminates the foundations on which contemporary Mexican culture is laid.” —Kirkus…
Schedule for TLA and SABF
Here is my schedule for the Texas Library Association conference and the San Antonio Book Festival this week, for those attending and interested. Wednesday, April 4 Public reading at 6:30 pm at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Thursday, April 5 (Texas Library Association conference in Dallas)…
San Antonio Book Festival
This April I’ll be one of many featured authors at the San Antonio Book Festival, alongside Sandra Cisneros, Benjamín Alire Sáenz, Jorge Ramos, Carmen María Machado, Diana López, and others! Learn more by browsing the line-up on their page.
Visiting Writer
I’ve been selected as Spring 2018 Visiting Writer for Our Lady of the Lake University. Learn more on their website.
2017 Appearances
February 9, 2017—”Writing on the Frontlines of the Tex-Mex Frontera.” Panel at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Monument, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four. Washington, DC. 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm. February 14, 2017—Haunted Valentine. Presentation, reading and book signing. McAllen Public Library. McAllen,…
Co-authoring a Book with Adam Gidwitz
I can now reveal that I am one of the authors working with Adam Gidwitz on a new middle-grade series from Penguin Dutton called The Unicorn Rescue Society! Other members of the society include Joseph Bruchac, Emma Otheguy, Hena Khan, and illustrator Hatem Aly. Read Adam’s blog post for all…