![]() ![]() In 2014, I completed a PhD in comparative literature at Indiana University where I focused on Latin American literatures, and now I am an assistant professor teaching world literatures at The Ohio State University. I have been a serious student all my life. What else? I grew up in East Texas near where my novel Out of Darkness takes place, but I’ve lived outside of Texas for as long as I lived there. Please check out the blog Latinxs in Kid Lit, where we highlight outstanding work by Latinx authors. I also believe in the importance of making #OwnVoices central in YA and children’s literature. I believe in writing that reckons with the uniqueness and diversity of lives lived in any given community, whatever the background of the author. Learning with them and many other amazing readers, including my sons Liam Miguel and Ethan Andrés, continues to shape my vision of what it means for Latinx readers find themselves-and their community-represented responsibly in the pages of the books they read.Īll readers deserve to encounter stories that speak to their lived experience and to their imagination. Those conversations were the first reason that I-as a white woman-became passionate about stories that center Latinx lives. ![]() My goal was to help them connect to books that would change their minds. Chávez High School on the southeast side of Houston, many of my students were convinced that they hated to read and write. ![]()
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