Available now! My translation of ‘Twas the Night Before Pride—written by Joanna McClintick and illustrated by Juana Medina—into [non-binary] Spanish: LA VÍSPERA DE ORGULLO. A lovely picture book that depicts a queer family preparing for an important holiday. A necessary text in these fraught and often hateful times.
My translation of The Immortal boy (by the incredible Colombian author Francisco Montaña Ibáñez) has been named the 2022 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honor Title. The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) focuses on making world literature more visible for kids and adults. Here’s what they say about themselves:…
I’m delighted to see that My Two Border Towns is one of the books selected for the 2022 NCTE/CLA Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award! Check out the entire list on the Children’s Literature Assembly website.
TWO (2) of my books just won awards from the Texas Institute of Letters: The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas for Best Translation and The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1) for Best YA Book (which I wrote with my cool carnal and collaborator Raúl the Third). I…
My Two Border Towns has won the 2022 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award! Huge congratulations to my collaborator, illustrator Érika Meza, and the other winners, Yuyi Morales and Daniel Alemán!
So thrilled that my translation of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas was selected as a Batchelder Honor Book by the American Library Association! Shout-out to publisher Levine Querido, writer María García Esperón, editor Nick Thomas, and illustrator Amanda Mijangos!
My Mesoamerican cosmic horror podcast The Obsidian Codex will debut on February 14, 2022 on Spotify and most other platforms. It’s about a Mexican American archeologist who receives an ancient text that could trigger the end of the world. Will his own desperation and academic greed push him to use…
¡Qué emoción! Mis dos pueblos fronterizos was selected as the winner / gold medalist of the Premio Mejor Libro Infantil / Best Spanish Language Picture Book Award by the Spanish Language Affiliate of the Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education!
Bank Street College’s Center for Children’s Literature has selected Mis dos pueblos fronterizos as one of The Best Children’s Picture Books of the Year in Spanish. Find the full list here: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/17/
October 2021 New York Comic ConJavits Center, 429 11th Ave, NYCRoom TBDOctober 7, 2021Time TBD“Feathered Serpents, Brujas, and Sugar Skulls: Understanding LatinX Representation in Pop Culture” James River Writer’s ConferenceOctober 8, 202110:15 am CSTPoint of View PanelThe narrator’s relationship to the story is one of the most important decisions a…
