An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection “Sidewalks”; the novels “Faces in the Crowd” and “The Story of My Teeth”; “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions” and “Lost Children Archive: A Novel.”
Martínez, a poet, translator, and playwright, is the author of three books of poetry.
Zee Edgell is the author of four novels including Beka Lamb (1982), In Times Like These (1991), and Time and the River (2007).
María Dueñas’s first novel, The Time in Between, published in 2009, became a worldwide publishing success and is the one that first brings her fame.
María Roselia Jiménez Pérez has produced several children’s books in Tojolab’al and has composed several pieces of vocal music in her language as well.
Maria Concepcion Bautista Vázquez is a Tsotsil writer and painter from the Tsotsil pueblo of Huixtan, Chiapas.
Marie Thérèse Colimon-Hall wrote three plays, a novel, a collection of short stories and numerous collections of poetry and essays. She is considered one of Haiti’s most prominent female authors.
Maryse Condé is the author of several novels, numerous plays, books of short stories, and essays and articles on African and Caribbean literature.
American children’s book author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latino culture and the lives of young people.
Colombian writer Melba Escobar writes a column for the Colombian newspapers El Espectador and El País. Her novel “House of Beauty” (Fourth Estate) was chosen as one of the best books of 2016 by the Colombian National Novel Prize.