Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff!

On the eve of 2021's Hispanic Heritage Month, an all-star group of Latinx women, all with new books published this year, gather for an evening of conversation and celebration.

Featuring:

• Carolina De Robertis (The President and the Frog)


• Naima Coster (What's Mine and Yours)


• Patricia Engel (Infinite Country)


• Daisy Hernández (The Kissing Bug)


• Quiara Alegría Hudes (My Broken Language)

In conversation with Angie Cruz (Dominicana)

This program will be streamed live on the NYPL event page.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Carolina De Robertis is the author of five novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; it was also selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Italy's Rhegium Julii Prize, and numerous other honors. An author of Uruguayan origins, she teaches at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California, with her wife and two children.

Naima Coster is the author of two novels, What's Mine and Yours, an instant New York Times bestseller, and her debut, Halsey Street, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima's stories and essays have appeared in Elle, Time, Kweli, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, The Sunday Times, Catapult, and elsewhere. In 2020, she received the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honor. Naima tweets as @zafatista and writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Patricia Engel is the award-winning author of The Veins of the Ocean, Vida, and It's Not Love, It's Just Paris. Her recent novel, Infinite Country, is an instant New York Times bestseller. 

Daisy Hernández is a former reporter for The New York Times and has been writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades. Her most recent book is The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease. She has written for National Geographic, NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch, The Atlantic, Slate, and Guernica, and she’s the former editor of Colorlines, a news magazine on race and politics. Hernández is the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful and the author of a memoir, My Broken Language. She wrote the book for the Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights and later adapted it for the screen. Her notable essays include “High Tide of Heartbreak” in American Theatre magazine and “Corey Couldn’t Take It Anymore” in The Cut. As a prison reform activist, Hudes and her cousin founded Emancipated Stories, a platform where people behind bars can share one page of their life story with the world. She lives with her family in New York but frequently returns to her native Philly.

Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and chosen as the 2019/2020 Wordup Uptown Reads. It was shortlisted for The Women's Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and The Aspen Words Literary Literary Prize, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies. She's an associate professor at University of Pittsburgh where she teaches in the MFA program and splits her time between Pittsburgh, New York, and Turin. 

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Carolina De Robertis © Lori Eanes

Patricia Engel © Elliott & Erick Jimenez

Angie Cruz © Erika Morillo