Authors List View Elio Morillo Known as the “space mechanic,” ELIO MORILLO is a Mars 2020 operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Born in Ecuador and raised in Puerto Rico and New York, Morillo is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, bringing years of volunteering and organization experience to Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Hispanic Employee Resource Group and New Researchers and Scientists Group, where he serves as the networking chair. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and currently resides in California. Caridad Moro-Gronlier CARIDAD MORO-GRONLIER is a Cuban American lesbian poet born in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents. She is the author of the chapbook Visionware, a contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and associate editor for SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) Every Day, an online daily poetry journal. Tortillera: Poems (Texas Review Press) is her debut collection. Walter Mosley WALTER MOSLEY is the author of 60 critically acclaimed books of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and plays, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy, several NAACP Image Awards, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020 Mosley was named the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award from the National Book Foundation. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now divides his time between LA and Brooklyn, New York. Sahar Muradi SAHAR MURADI is the author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ]; A Garden Beyond My Hand; and Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told through Poetic Divination. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature and EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives beyond the Forever War: An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and Its Diaspora, and the co-author of A Ritual in X Movements. A recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award and the Patrons’ Prize for Emerging Writers from Thornwillow Press, she was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Muradi is a co-founder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association. Verónica Murguía VERÓNICA MURGUÍA nació en la Ciudad de México en 1960. Hizo estudios de Historia en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. Ha escrito varias novelas y una docena de libros para niños y jóvenes. Durante veinte años mantuvo una columna quincenal en el periódico La Jornada. Ha sido maestra de literatura y traductora. Su novela más reciente, El cuarto jinete, aborda la epidemia de peste negra que asoló Asia, Europa y el norte de África en el siglo XIV. Participa este año en el X Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Lectura, organizado en conjunto con la Fundación Cuatrogatos. Dwyer Murphy DWYER MURPHY is the author of An Honest Living: A Novel, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, and the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads, Literary Hub’s crime fiction vertical and the world’s most popular destination for thriller readers. He previously practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, where he was a litigator, served as editor of Columbia Law Review, and was an emerging writer fellow at New York's The Center for Fiction. Aparna Nancherla APARNA NANCHERLA is a comedian, actress, and writer based in Los Angeles. Her standup has appeared on Two Dope Queens on HBO, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Conan, and she has had half-hour specials on both Comedy Central and Netflix. She starred as Grace the HR rep on the critically acclaimed Corporate, was the voice of Hollyhock on Bojack Horseman, and has held roles in many other shows. Nancherla also wrote for and was featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, Totally Biased on FX, and Debate Wars on streaming platform Seeso, and contributed to Broad City and Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters. She has also contributed multiple op-eds to The New York Times. Joe Natoli JOE NATOLI is executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Baptist Health South Florida, which includes 12 hospitals and more than 100 physician practices and outpatient facilities, as well as internationally renowned institutes for cancer, cardiac and vascular, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences. As chief administrative officer, he is responsible for construction and facilities management, government and community relations, hospitality and business relations, human resources, innovation, international services, legal counsel, managed care contracting, technology and digital, and the Baptist Health South Florida Foundation, which raises funds to support the organization’s charitable mission. He is board chair of the American Journalism Project, a venture philanthropy organization that seeks to support “the local news our democracy deserves,” trustee of the Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, and member of the Health Management and Policy Advisory Board at the University of Miami. He has chaired or co-chaired communitywide United Way campaigns in Miami-Dade County, Southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and Silicon Valley (San Jose). Julia Navarro JULIA NAVARRO is a journalist, political analyst, and the international bestselling author of six novels, including Story of a Sociopath: A Novel, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud: A Novel, and The Bible of Clay: A Novel. Her fiction has been translated into more than 30 languages. She lives in Madrid. JULIA NAVARRO ha cautivado a millones de lectores con las ocho novelas que ha publicado hasta la fecha: La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa; La Biblia de barro; La sangre de los inocentes; Dime quién soy; Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto; Historia de un canalla; Tú no matarás y De ninguna parte. Sus libros se han publicado en más de treinta países y de Dime quién soy se ha producido una ambiciosa serie de televisión a cargo de Movistar+. Llega a la Feria de Miami con Una historia compartida (Plaza & Janés, 2023), su obra más personal y una invitación a compartir las historias escritas y vividas por mujeres, quienes apenas aparecen como sujetos de las historias de la Historia. Sin embargo, la lista de aquellas que la protagonizaron es extensa: desde diosas hasta reinas, desde cortesanas hasta científicas, desde actrices hasta santas, desde escritoras hasta políticas. Por eso, este libro no es solo la historia de ellas sino la de todos, pero contada no a través de la supremacía masculina sino desde un lugar común. Patrick Nellis PATRICK NELLIS is district director of the Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning (CIOL) at Miami Dade College; CIOL provides professional development opportunities to employees so they can develop the skills, knowledge, and abilities they need to perform successfully and remain current with new developments and technologies. In this role he designs and delivers leadership programs, new faculty onboarding, department chair development, and more. His prior experience includes 14 years as leader of faculty development for Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, where he established the Teaching/Learning Academy for new tenure-track faculty and the Associate Faculty Certificate program for part-time faculty. He teaches an introduction to U.S. federal government course each year and frequently presents papers and workshops at national conferences on teaching, learning, and faculty development, and has presented on staff and faculty development at Austin Community College, Madison Area Technical College, Indian River Community College, Patrick Henry Community College, San Diego City College, and Valencia College. Shane Neman SHANE NEMAN is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and real estate developer. After dropping out of NYU Medical School and failing at his first startup during the tech-bubble bust of the early 2000s, he started over. His second venture, JoonBug, became a multimillion-dollar digital events powerhouse that thoroughly disrupted the events and hospitality industry. He subsequently founded a successful SaaS business, EZ Texting, the largest business SMS software platform in the United States. Now as a venture capitalist, Neman is a prolific backer of startups, including Impossible Foods, Athletic Greens, SandboxAQ, Cirkul, Flexport, Convoy, Prose, Kraken, Obe, Deep Sentinel, Anvyl, Future, MapAnything, VinePair, Hyperice, and Gupshup. He is also an investor, developer, and manager of various real estate properties from commercial shopping and industrial centers to large residential buildings, running a portfolio of more than 20 properties in major metropolitan cities across the U.S. Ariana Neumann ARIANA NEUMANN nació y creció en Venezuela. Se graduó de Historia y Literatura Francesa de la Universidad de Tufts, tiene una maestría en Español y Literatura Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Nueva York y un posgrado en Psicología de la Religión de la Universidad de Londres. Ha trabajado en la industria editorial, fue corresponsal para el diario en inglés The Daily Journal en Venezuela y sus escritos han sido publicados en The European, el Jewish Book Council y The New York Times. Su libro Cuando el tiempo se detuvo (Planeta 2023),que presenta este año en la Feria, es un bestseller internacional y ha estado en las listas de los libros más vendidos de The New York Times y The Washington Post. Además, ganó el Dayton Peace Prize for Non Fiction en 2021 y el premio a mejores memorias en el Jewish Book Awards de 2020, entre otros, y se ha traducido a siete idiomas. Vive en Londres con su esposo, sus tres hijos, un border terrier y un criollo rescatado. Actualmente está trabajando en su segundo libro. Celeste Ng CELESTE NG is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You: A Novel, Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, and Our Missing Hearts: A Novel. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in more than 30 languages. Suzanne Nossel SUZANNE NOSSEL is the chief executive officer of PEN America and the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Since joining PEN in 2013, she's doubled its staff, budget, and membership; spearheaded a unification with PEN Center USA in Los Angeles as well as the establishment of a Washington, D.C., office; and overseen groundbreaking work on free expression in Hong Kong and China, Myanmar, Eurasia, and the United States. A leading voice on the subject in the U.S. and globally, she writes and is frequently interviewed about free expression issues for national and international media outlets. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other outlets, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Democracy, and other journals. She served on the board of directors of the Tides Foundation until 2021, and is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dan Nott DAN NOTT is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His short comics and illustrations for investigative journalism have appeared in Spotlight PA, The Nib, Resist!, and Seven Days, and in publications for NJ Advance Media and WBUR, among others. He graduated with an MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) and released two comic books with CCS – This is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance and Freedom and Unity: A Graphic Guide to Civics and Democracy in Vermont – and today teaches classes there. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day (Random House Graphic) is his debut nonfiction graphic novel. Idra Novey IDRA NOVEY is the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear and Those Who Knew: A Novel. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She teaches at Princeton University and in the MFA program at New York University. Carolina Novoa Arias CAROLINA NOVOA ARIAS es comunicadora social y periodista de la Universidad Javeriana con máster en Relaciones Internacionales de Columbia University en New York y Sciences Po en París. Desde los 17 años trabajó como presentadora de noticias y reportera en Colombia en los canales RCN Televisión y NTN 24; luego en Estados Unidos fue presentadora de noticias y reportera de Telemundo y corresponsal de Caracol Radio en Miami. Se convirtió en la única reportera judicial de habla hispana en el sur de la Florida, lo que la llevó a ser nominada varias veces y luego ganadora del Emmy Award. Además de su carrera televisiva, cuenta con certificación en nutrición holística, especialización como Health Coach de medicina funcional, así como certificaciones en Terapia de Respuesta Espiritual. También es terapeuta en bio sanación emocional thetahealing. Con estas herramientas promueve hábitos de vida saludables en la comunidad hispana de Estados Unidos y en Latinoamérica. Llega a la Feria de Miami con El cuerpo grita lo que las emociones callan (Planeta, 2023), una obra donde la autora nos muestra cómo sanar es un proceso holístico que está en tus manos si escuchas las enseñanzas que trae cada enfermedad. Este libro te invita a explorar en lo más profundo de ti y a enfrentarte con aquello que tu mente ha querido ocultar, pero que tu cuerpo no deja de gritar. Soledad O'Brien SOLEDAD O’BRIEN is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist, and the founder of Soledad O’Brien Productions, a media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues. She anchors and produces Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a Hearst political magazine program seen in 95% of the country; is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports; has provided congressional testimony on media disinformation; and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of fame in May 2023. O’Brien’s impact nationwide has been disseminated via her op-eds, social media, speeches, and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir, The Next Big Story, and her 1.3 million X followers. She has anchored shows and specials on CNN, MSNBC, NBC’s Today Show, NatGeo, BET, ABC, and CBS. Soledad O’Brien Productions’ most recent projects include the Peabody Award-winning documentary, The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks – which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streams on Peacock – and the multipart series Black and Missing, which won Independent Spirit and NAACP awards and streams on HBO. Other productions have appeared on Discovery Plus, CNN, BET, PBS, and other outlets. She also works with major foundations, like Ford and Gates, to produce impactful documentaries on topics like hunger, race, and education. Renee O'Connor Born in Kingston, Jamaica, RENEE O’CONNOR moved with her family to Miami when she was 6 years old, and later became a first-generation college graduate when she earned a degree in international affairs – and a minor in Black studies – from Florida State University. After a successful career in the hospitality industry, she started her own business and ran a dance company for five years before pivoting again after hearing former President Barack Obama speak about the state of public education in America. Her interest captured, she began doing research and discovered that the statistics, particularly for Black and brown kids in public school, were dismal. Soon after, she applied and was accepted to the Teach For America program and was placed at Miami Norland Senior High School 13 years ago. In October 2023 she traveled with the Community Justice Project to Geneva to testify before the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights at the United Nations during its review of the United States Human Rights contract. She spoke directly to the ICC on the ways in which she believes the state of Florida is infringing upon its citizens’ freedom of expression, in particular teachers who teach African American history. Michael Mackin O'Mara MICHAEL MACKIN O'MARA is the publisher and managing editor of the South Florida Poetry Journal. Nathan Oates NATHAN OATES’ debut collection of short stories, The Empty House, won the Spokane Prize for fiction. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, West Branch, The Best American Mystery Stories, and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Missouri, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He is an associate professor at Seton Hall University, where he teaches creative writing. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family. Elena Odriozola ELENA ODRIOZOLA nació en San Sebastián, en 1967. Después de trabajar durante ocho años en una agencia de publicidad, en 1997 empezó a trabajar como ilustradora. Desde entonces ha ilustrado (además de carteles y portadas entre otras cosas) algo más de 100 libros, publicados por editoriales en España (principalmente), Francia, Reino Unido, México y Taiwán. Sus libros han sido publicados en diversos idiomas. En 2019 funda, junto a Gustavo Puerta Leisse y Marta Ansón, Ediciones Modernas El Embudo, para sacar adelante sus trabajos más personales y lúdicos. Entre sus obras se pueden destacar Aplastamiento de las gotas de Julio Cortázar, Eguberria y Ur Libro de lluvia de Juan Kruz Igerabide, Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, En el bosque de Ana María Matute, Sentimientos encontrados de Gustavo Puerta Leisse, o Así me lo contaron, así te lo cuento de Charles Perrault, Madame Leprince de Beaumont y los Hermanos Grimm. Entre otros, ha recibido el Premio Euskadi de Ilustración, el Premio Nacional de Ilustración, el Premio Junceda Internacional, la Manzana de Oro y el Grand Prix de la Bienal de Bratislava. Ha sido candidata en diversas ocasiones al Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Y candidata al premio Andersen 2018, 2020 (finalista), 2022 y 2024. Mirta Ojito MIRTA OJITO es periodista y autora de dos libros: El Mañana: memorias de un éxodo cubano (Vintage Español) y La cacería: una historia de inmigración y violencia en Estados Unidos (Vintage Español). Ha trabajado en El Nuevo Herald, the Miami Herald, y The New York Times. Además, fue profesora de periodismo durante casi nueve años en la Facultad de Estudios Posgraduados de la Universidad de Columbia. Ojito ha recibido numerosos premios, y fue parte del equipo del New York Times que recibió un Pulitzer por una serie de artículos sobre temas raciales en el 2001. Actualmente es senior director de Standards de NBC en la cadena Telemundo. Ojito conversa en la Feria con la escritora española Julia Navarro. Michele Oka Doner MICHELE OKA DONER is an artist whose work encompasses sculpture, prints, drawings, furniture, jewelry, public art, functional objects, video, costume and set design, and artists' books. Her permanent art installations include Flight at Reagan International Airport, Radiant Site at New York City's Herald Square 34th Street subway station, and A Walk on the Beach, the mile-and-a-quarter-long bronze terrazzo concourse at Miami International Airport. Her work is also part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, among others. José Olivarez JOSÉ OLIVAREZ is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by The Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. His lates book, Promises of Gold (Henry Holt and Co.), is longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Poetry. Tochi Onyebuchi TOCHI ONYEBUCHI is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. His novella Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus, the Ignyte, and the NAACP Image Awards, won the New England Book Award for Fiction and an ALA Alex Award. He holds a B.A. from Yale, an MFA in screenwriting from the Tisch School for the Arts, a master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Panverse Three, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Obsidian, Omenana Magazine, Uncanny, and Lightspeed. His nonfiction has appeared in Tor.com, Nowhere magazine, the Oxford University Press blog, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. His latest book is Goliath: A Novel (Tordotcom). Andrés Oppenheimer ANDRÉS OPPENHEIMER es editor y columnista de asuntos internacionales con el Miami Herald, presentador de “Oppenheimer Presenta” en CNN En Español y autor de siete libros. Es el ganador del Premio Pulitzer 1987 como miembro del equipo del Miami Herald que investigó el escándalo Irán-Contra. Ganó el Premio de la Asociación Interamericana de Prensa dos veces (1989 y 1994) y el premio de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos en 1997. También ganó el Premio Ortega y Gasset, del diario español El País en 1993 y el Premio Maria Moors Cabot de la Universidad de Columbia en 1998. En Cómo salir del pozo (Debate, 2023), Oppenheimer explora el fenómeno de la ola de descontento que invade al mundo, trayendo consigo un aumento del stress, la insatisfacción y la depresión. El autor amplía el concepto de progreso y comparte estrategias para combatir la infelicidad. Mark Oshiro MARK OSHIRO is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning Latinx queer author of Anger Is a Gift; Each of Us a Desert, and Into the Light (For Teen); as well as the middle-grade books The Insiders; You Only Live Once, David Bravo; and Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena. Oshiro are also a co-author with Rick Riordan of The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure. William Ospina WILLIAM OSPINA es uno de los escritores más destacados de las últimas generaciones. Sus obras son mapas eruditos de sus amores literarios, acompañados de declaraciones ideológicas sobre historia y el mundo moderno. Autor de numerosos libros de poesía, de ensayo y de novelas, la primera de ellas, Ursúa (2005), dio comienzo a una trilogía sobre la Conquista, continuada por El País de la Canela (2008), por el que obtuvo el Premio Rómulo Gallegos y rematada por La serpiente sin ojos (2015). Entre sus títulos más recientes destacan El año del verano que nunca llegó (2015), La lámpara maravillosa (2015) y Guayacanal (2020). Este año llega a la Feria con Pondré mi oído en la piedra hasta que hable (Random House, 2023), obra a través de la cual Ospina nos invita a viajar por el fascinante pasado de las geografías sudamericanas de la mano del científico Alexander Von Humboldt. Andrew Otazo ANDREW OTAZO is the author of The Miami Creation Myth (independently published) and CEO of ARO Communications, a public relations firm. Prior to that he served as the Cuba Study Group’s executive director and worked at several other PR agencies. Otazo was a case writer at Harvard Business School, implemented foreign policy at the State Department, and was Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s assistant. He has removed 23,000 pounds of trash from Miami’s coast. Otazo was named to Brickell Magazine’s Top 20 Under 40 List and named Local 10 News' Most Treasured Citizen, Miami’s Next Leader and FAES Latino Leader, and has received two proclamations from the village of Key Biscayne. Posts navigation ← Previous 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 … 18 Next →
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