Letras

Editor's note: This interview is the 13th in a series that will focus on contemporary Puerto Rican authors. To read the previous interview with Rosalie Morales Kearns , click here . Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill (Simon and Schuster, 2008), 2009 winner of the Latino International Book Award, and of The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho...

Editor's note: This interview is the 12th in a series that will focus on contemporary Puerto Rican authors. To read the previous interview with Jennifer Maritza McCauley , click here . Rosalie Morales Kearns, daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Euro-American father, was born in Pennsylvania. Her novel Kingdom of Women (Jaded Ibis, 2017) was a National Latino Book Club selection and was praised...

For the second installment of her young adult trilogy, historian and author Virginia Sánchez Korrol returns to the late 19th century struggles for independence led by Caribbean exiles in New York City. In The Season of Rebels and Roses , however, the focus shifts away from the Cuban independence movement—as is the case in the first novel—and toward the Puerto Rican struggle for liberation;...

Editor's note: This interview is the 11th in a series that will focus on contemporary Puerto Rican authors. To read the previous interview with Kenyatta JP Garcia, click here . Jennifer Maritza McCauley teaches at the University of Missouri, where she is working on her PhD in creative writing. She currently holds staff positions at The Missouri Review (Contest Editor, Poetry Editor in Fall 2018)...