Authors

Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo (Caracas, Venezuela, 1981) Narrador. Reside en Málaga, España. Completó su doctorado en Literatura y lingüística en la Universidad Paris XIII. Fue escritor invitado del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa. Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Una larga fila de hombres (2005), Los invencibles (2007), Las rayas (2011), Emuntorios (2018). En 2016 publicó su primera novela, The Night, en España, que ha sido traducida al francés, al holandés y al checo; con ella obtuvo, ese mismo año, el premio “Rive Gauche à París a la mejor novela extranjera”, el Premio de la Crítica en Venezuela 2018 y, en 2019, el premio III Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México. Presenta en la feria The Night, (Penguin Random House), novela y Los Terneros (Páginas de Espuma), una colección de cuentos.

Jonathan Blum grew up in Miami and graduated from UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author, previously, of the novella, Last Word. His short stories have appeared in Angels Flight, literary west, The Carolina Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Playboy, Sonora Review, and in Shanxi Literature, among others. He has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa, Drew University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, a Hawthornden fellowship in Scotland, and a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. The unlikely heroes of his latest book, a collection of short stories entitled The Usual Uncertainties (Rescue Press), are trying to make their way in the world in the face of struggles big and small, both ancestral and circumstantial. This collection is a compelling blend of tragic and comical, quiet and radiant.

Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses dealing with food, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. His writing has appeared in Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Salon, and Gastronomica. He is the author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf and Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) reveals the human consequences of militarizing what was once a more forgiving border. When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. Undocumented, Aida fought to make her way. Following a misstep that led to her deportation, Aida found herself in a Mexican city marked by violence, in a country that was not hers. To get back to the United States and reunite with her son, she embarked on a harrowing journey. Taking us into detention centers, immigration courts, and the inner lives of Aida and other daring characters Aaron Bobrow-Strain exposes a violently unequal America. He also shows us that the heroes of our current immigration wars are less likely to be perfect paragons of virtue than complex, flawed human beings who deserve justice and empathy all the same.

Botero, Juan Carlos (Bogotá, Colombia, 1960) Narrador y periodista. Estudió literatura en las universidades Javeriana, los Andes y Harvard. Ha sido columnista de La Prensa y El Tiempo, y es ganador del Premio Juan Rulfo de Cuento y del Concurso Latinoamericano de Cuento. Sus libros incluyen Las semillas del tiempo: epífanos, Las ventanas y las voces, La sentencia, El arrecife, El idioma de las nubes y El arte de Fernando Botero. Es columnista de El Espectador. Estará conversando con el escritor Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

Botero, Juan Carlos is a writer and journalist. He studied literature at the Javeriana and Los Andes universities in Colombia ,and Harvard University. He is a columnist at El Espectador, and has previously worked at La Prensa and El Tiempo, and for his short stories, he won the Juan Rulfo Prize and the award at the Concurso Latinoamericano de Cuento. His books include Las semillas del tiempo: epífanos, Las ventanas y las voces, La sentencia, El arrecife, El idioma de las nubes and El arte de Fernando Botero. He will appear in conversation with author Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

Robert Boyers is editor of Salmagundi, professor of English at Skidmore College, and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author of ten previous books and the editor of a dozen others. He writes often for such magazines as Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, Yale Review, and Granta. He is author of The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies (Scribner), a thought-provoking volume of nine essays that elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers’s collection of essays is devoted to such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines.

T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His most recent novel, Outside Looking In (Ecco) is a provocative exploration of the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities. A coterie of grad students at Harvard are drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers, and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. Is LSD a belief system? Does it allow you to see God? Can the Loneys’ marriage—or any marriage, for that matter—survive the chaotic and sometimes orgiastic use of psychedelic drugs? Wry, witty, and wise, Outside Looking In is an utterly engaging and occasionally trippy look at the nature of reality, identity, and consciousness, as well as our seemingly infinite capacities for creativity, re-invention, and self-discovery.

Dr. Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has received seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including for boards, museums, colleges and historical societies. Six of his books were named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year” and seven became New York Times bestsellers. He received a Grammy Award in 2017 as co-producer of Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom. His latest book, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Harper) takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to recreate one of the most exciting and ambitious achievements in the history of humankind. American Moonshot brings together the extraordinary political, cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and development of NASA and the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, which shot the United States to victory in the space race against the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. The Washington Post writes, “Compelling and comprehensive…., American Moonshot transcends mere narrative to help the rest of us understand how America geared up for the astonishing feat of landing a man on the moon.”

Adrienne Brodeur began her career in publishing as the co-founder, with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, of the National Magazine Award-winning Zoetrope: All-Story. She has worked as a book editor and is currently the executive director of Aspen Words. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life—and her mother—on her own terms.

Daniel Brook is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. His last book, A History of Future Cities, was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post. His newest book, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction (W. W. Norton & Company)is a technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude. The Accident of Color revisits a crucial inflection point in American history. By returning to the birth of our nation’s singularly narrow racial system, which was forged in the crucible of opposition to civil rights, Brook illuminates the origins of the racial lies we live by.

Sarah M. Broom’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford American, and O, The Oprah magazine among others. She received her Master’s in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She is author of The Yellow House (Grove Press).  In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah’s birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows.

Kevin Adonis Browne is a photographer, poet, archivist, and scholar of contemporary rhetoric and Caribbean culture. His previous books include Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean. He is currently based in Trinidad, where he works at the University of the West Indies–St. Augustine. His latest book High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture (University Press of Mississippi) was Overall Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Taking a sophisticated and unapologetically subjective Caribbean point of view, the author delves into Mas―a key feature of Trinidad performance―as an emancipatory practice. The photographs and essays here immerse the viewer in carnival experience as never before. Kevin Adonis Browne divulges how performers are or wish to be perceived, along with how, as the photographer, he is implicated in that dynamic. The resulting interplay encourages an informed, nuanced approach to the imaging of contemporary Caribbeanness. Representing the uneasy embrace of tradition in Trinidad and the Caribbean at large, the book probes the multiple dimensions of vernacular experience and their complementary cultural expressions. For Browne, Mas performance is an exquisite refusal to fully submit to the lingering traumas of slavery, the tyrannies of colonialism, and the myths of independence.

Ayse Papatya Bucak’s short fiction has been selected for the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. She is an associate professor in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Her debut story collection, The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories (W. W. Norton & Company), “is a wonder cabinet of stories so singular and marvelous that I spent a long time after each, wanting to linger in the space it had created,” according to writer Kelly Link. In Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.

Harold Buchanan earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College, and was one of the first to earn a Concentration in Black Studies. He is a retired computer technology professional from New Jersey. He is also an accomplished photographer with a passion for nature and travel photography. He has traveled extensively to observe and photograph wildlife. Harold is a co-founder of the Swarthmore Black Alumni Network (SBAN). 

 

Lynne Buchanan’s photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, Fogartyville Arts and Media Center in Sarasota, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Brickworks Gallery in Atlanta, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, and 516 Arts in Albuquerque. She has been affiliated with the Waterkeeper Alliance since 2013. She is the author of Florida’s Changing Waters: A Beautiful World in Peril (George F Thompson Publishing). Lynne Buchanan began photographing Florida’s inland waters to create artistic records of her connection with those. The more time she spent photographing waterways in her native Florida, the more she noticed what was being damaged and lost due to human impact. She resolved to draw attention to the situation through her photography and to work with water-quality and environmental advocates, from members of the Waterkeeper Alliance to Native American citizens fighting to preserve the integrity of their ancestral lands and drinking water. The result is Florida’s Changing Waters, which not only showcases the beauty, diversity, and complexity of Florida’s waters, but also documents the negative effects of agricultural and industrial pollution, a growing population with its urban growth and land development, and climate change on Florida’s inland and coastal waters and springs. Buchanan’s photographs invite viewers to consider their personal relationship to water and encourage better stewardship of this vital––and finite––resource.

Nina Bunjevac’s comics have been published in a number of international periodicals and anthologies, including the National Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, ArtReview and Best American Comics. Her first book Heartless won a Doug Wright Award in Best Debut category. Her second book, Fatherland received international acclaim, appearing on the New York Times best-seller list and receiving a Doug Wright Award in Best Book category; it was also shortlisted for PACA regional Literary Award in France. Bezimena (Fantagraphics), Nina’s third book, made the official selection at Angoulême International Comics Festival 2019, and was awarded Artemisia prize in the category of best drawing. The jumping-off point of this graphic novel is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of Artemis' virgin cohorts. Bunjevac's retelling follows Benny, who, when he comes across a former classmate, concocts a disturbing rape fantasy. In her stippled, illustrative style, Bunjevac crafts a gripping noirish, Nabokovian tale, by turns sensual, surreal, and harrowing, that turns the male gaze inside-out. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Cabiya, Pedro (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1971) Narrador y profesor. Ha publicado la colección de relatos Historias tremendas y las novelas Trance, La cabeza, Malas hierbas, esta última ganadora del Foreword INDIES Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Award en 2016, y Reibou, que fue llevada a la pantalla grande. Su obra ha sido reconocida por el Pen Club, el Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña y la Asociación de Escritores y Periodistas Dominicanos. En 2014 fue galardonado con el Caonabo de Oro por sus excelencia en las letras. Ha participado en numerosas antologías internacionales. Pedro Cabiya llega a Miami con su nueva novela Tercer mundo, publicada por Zemi Book, un libro en que la realidad puertorriqueña actual y la fantasía se mezclan deviniendo parábola cósmica y sátira social.

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. Her latest book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Grand Central Publishing) is a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine. For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment.  But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?

Liam Callanan is a novelist, teacher, and journalist, whose first novel, The Cloud Atlas, was a finalist for an Edgar Award. Winner of the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts and Letters, Liam has published in the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has recorded numerous essays for public radio. He's taught for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Paris by the Book: A Novel (Dutton) tells the story of a missing person, a grieving family, and a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. A series of startling discoveries forces Leah to consider that she may not be ready for what solving this mystery might do to her family--and the Paris she thought she knew. Publisher’s Weekly calls Paris By the Book, “sublime.”

Josh Campbell is a CNN law enforcement analyst. Prior to joining the network, Campbell was a supervisory special agent with the FBI and served as special assistant to FBI director James Comey. He received four FBI Combat Theater Awards for his work embedded with military special operations and CIA teams abroad. Campbell has an MA in communication from Johns Hopkins and a BA in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches national security at the University of Southern California. Dan Rather writes of his book Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI (Algonquin Books), “Campbell speaks both from the heart and experience. A dynamite read.” In this gripping fly-on-the-wall narrative, Campbell takes readers behind the scenes of the earliest days of the Russia investigation—codename: Crossfire Hurricane—up to the present. Using both firsthand experience and reporting, he reveals fresh details about this tumultuous period; explains how the FBI goes about its work and its historic independence from partisan forces; and describes the increasing dismay inside the bureau as the president and his allies escalate their attacks on the agency. Appalled by Trump’s assault on the bureau’s credibility, Campbell left the FBI in 2018 to sound the alarm about unfair political attacks on the institutions that keep America safe. Smart, clear, passionate, Crossfire Hurricane will captivate readers struggling to make sense of a news cycle careening out of control.

Russell Canan is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Justin Driver of the Washington Post writes of Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They've Ever Made (The New Press) “ Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.” In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention such as the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating. Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.

Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist―the co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize―and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Rumor of War, one of the most highly praised books of the twentieth century. His book, The Longest Road, was a New York Times bestseller. His novels include Acts of Faith, The Voyage, Horn of Africa, Crossers, and Some Rise by Sin. His latest book, Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories (Henry Holt and Co.) offers a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private, and the past is never really past. Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they’re fortunate, find a way forward. Hunter’s Moon offers an engaging, insightful look at everyday lives but also a fresh perspective on the way men navigate in today’s world.

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she also earned her MFA in Writing. She is author of Five Midnights (Tor Teen), a novel based on the el Cuco myth set against the backdrop of modern-day Puerto Rico. Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribución. If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other’s company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there―murderer, or monster? Juliana Baggott calls Five Midnights, “A frightening, fast-paced thriller.”

Jean Carroll writes the longest, currently-running advice column in the U.S., Ask E. Jean. It has 8 million readers. She has been published in New York, Rolling Stone, GQ, Glamour, and was a contributing editor at Esquire and Outside. She wrote for Saturday Night Live, was the host of the Ask E. Jean TV show, and has been a frequent guest on The Today Show. She is the founder of Tawkify, Inc. In her latest book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal (St. Martin's Press), America's longest-running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them. When E. Jean Carroll realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common―problems caused by men―she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the fascinating people she meets on her road trip with her “horrible history with the male sex” (including mafia bosses, media titans, boyfriends, husbands, a serial killer, and a president), creating a decidedly dark yet hopeful, hilarious, and thrilling narrative. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.

Candice Carty-Williams is a senior marketing executive at Vintage. In 2016, she created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, which aims to find, champion, and celebrate underrepresented writers. She contributes regularly to i-D, Refinery29, BEAT Magazine, and more, and her pieces, especially those about blackness, sex, and identity, have been shared globally. Queenie (Queenie Gallery/Scout Press) is her first novel. Jojo Moyes calls it,“[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

Casamayor, Juan (Madrid, España, 1968) Editor y docente. Licenciado en Filología hispánica por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Zaragoza, donde realizó su doctorado en literatura española del siglo XVIII. En 1999 funda, junto con Encarnación Molina, Páginas de Espuma, sello independiente que se ha convertido en una editorial de referencia en el género del cuento en castellano. En su catálogo se encuentran los principales escritores contemporáneos del cuento junto a los clásicos de la literatura universal. Además, el sello tiene una importante colección de ensayos, destacando la crítica literaria, las memorias, los diarios, los libros de viajes y los epistolarios. Desde 2008 la editorial mantiene sedes en México y Argentina. En 2017 se le otorgó el Premio Mérito Editorial de la FIL de Guadalajara y en 2019 el Premio Nacional a la Mejor Labor Editorial Cultural. Juan imparte clases en el Máster de Edición de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, el Máster online en Crítica y Comunicación cultural, organizado por El Cultural y la Universidad de Alcalá, y el Máster de Narrativa de la Escuela de Escritores de Madrid. Participa en la mesa Novedades de Página de Espuma, en la que la prestigiosa editorial española presenta a tres de los autores de su catálogo.

Cásares, Oscar (Estados Unidos, 1964) Narrador, ensayista y profesor de escritura creativa. Enseña en la University of Texas en Austin. Ha sido reconocido con la Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2006), el James A. Michener Award de la Copernicus Society of America, Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2002) y el Dobie Paisano Fellowship del Texas Institute of Letters de la University of Texas 2002). Ha dado a conocer el volumen de cuentos Brownsville: Stories (2003) y la novela Amigoland (2009). Cásares trae a la feria su novela De donde venimos, Vintage Español, donde relata el drama vivido por una familia mexicanoamericana que se ve involucrada, en contra de su voluntad, en el tráfico ilegal de inmigrantes.

Christopher Castellani is the author of three previous novels (the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love) and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. He is the son of Italian immigrants, a Guggenheim fellow, and the artistic director of GrubStreet, one of the country's leading creative writing centers. Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century - Tennessee Williams and his longtime partner Frank Merlo - Christopher Castellani’s Leading Men (Viking) is a glittering novel of desire and ambition, set against the glamorous literary circles of 1950s Italy. What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can't save ourselves? Leading Men seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives. In an ultimately heartbreaking story about the burdens of fame and the complex negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness, Castellani reveals the hidden machinery of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century.

Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, Soupy Leaves Home, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star, and the Eisner nominated Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure.  She is currently writing Shade, The Changing Girl, an ongoing comic on Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint at DC Comics.   Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Womanthology, Star Trek: Waypoint and Vertigo SFX: Slam! She is the Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for the Rumpus, a two-time MacDowell Fellow and the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books. Her latest graphic memoir is Girl on Film (Archaia), an insightful story of making art, the nature of memory, and being a teenager in 80s New York City. One thing young Cecil was sure of from the minute she saw Star Wars was that she was going to be an artisté. Probably a filmmaker. Possibly Steven Spielberg. Girl On Film follows a passionate aspiring artist from the youngest age through adulthood to deeply examine the arduous pursuit of filmmaking, while exploring the act of memory and how it recalls and reshapes what we think we truly know about ourselves.

Debbie Cenziper is an investigative journalist, professor, and author based in Washington, D.C. A contributing reporter for the investigative team at The Washington Post, she has won many major awards in print journalism, including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. Cenziper is the co-author of Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. She is director of investigative journalism at the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America (Hatchette Books) tells the gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. Though they participated in some of the most unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, "Trawniki Men" spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. Through insider accounts and research in four countries, this urgent and powerful narrative provides a front row seat to the dramatic turn of events that allowed a small group of American Nazi hunters to hold murderous men accountable for their crimes decades after the war's end.

Steph Cha is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and Dead Soon Enough. She’s the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.  Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay (Ecco). In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it’s been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence. Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird writes, “Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding...It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.”