Marcela Fuentes\, who was born and raised in Del Rio\, Texas\, is a Pushcart Prize&ndash\;winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers&rsquo\; Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. The debut novel Malas follows one family l iving on the Texas-Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across gene rations.
\nSantiago Jose Sanchez\, a Grinnell College assistant prof essor of English and a graduate of the Iowa Writers&rsquo\; Workshop\, is a queer Colombian American writer. They are the recipient of a Truman Capo te Fellowship from the University of Iowa and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fel lowship from Lambda Literary. A queer coming-of-age story\, Hombrecito reimagines the American immigrant narrative for a new generation\, f ollowing a boy whose mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to Ame rica\, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing her self once they get to Miami.
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