Kirkus has given They Call Her Fregona a starred review!!! Among the many praises they heap on my upcoming novel-in-verse are these snippets: “Superb.” “A real delight.” “Rich in scope.” “Sublime.” Thanks to Joanna Cárdenas at Kokila and my agent Taylor Martindale Kean for believing in this one!
I’m very excited that The Witch Owl Parliament is one of five Eisner Award nominees in the category Best Publication for Teens. I must give a huge thanks to illustrator / co-creator Raúl the Third, colorist Stacey Robinson, letterer Damian Duffy, and editor Stacy Whitman at Tu Books! “The Will…
My Two Border Towns has won the Américas Award, alongside Gloria Amescua’s fabulous Child of the Flower-Song People! From the CLASP website: The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non- fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in…
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…
