Authors

ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA is the author of the previous historical novels The German Girl, which became an international bestseller, and The Sister's Tale, as well as the memoir In Search of Emma: How We Created Our Family. His most recent work of fiction is The Night Travelers: A Novel (Atria Books). ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA es un escritor, editor y periodista galardonado que ha recibido numerosos premios de la National Association of Hispanic Publications y de la Society of Professional Journalism. Es el autor de La hija olvidada y del bestseller internacional La niña alemana, que ha sido publicado en catorce idiomas. Este año presenta en la Feria La viajera nocturna (Ediciones B, 2023), una conmovedora novela en la que cuatro generaciones de mujeres experimentan amores, pérdidas, guerras y esperanzas, en una historia que comienza con el surgimiento del nazismo en Alemania, pasa por la Revolución cubana, y se extiende hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín.

SABINA COVO es una periodista, presentadora de televisión y radio colombiana-estadounidense. Covo es actualmente una de las presentadoras de noticias de todas las estaciones afiliadas a GLR Networks en los EE.UU. para Minuto 60. También es presentadora de segmentos a través de RCN International y colabora con CNN en español. Covo ha trabajado como columnista para El Nuevo Herald y otros medios durante más de una década. Sabina Covo llega a la Feria de Miami con su primera novela: La casa de los relojes. En una casa llena de relojes de bolsillo, de pulsera y de pared, ocurre la historia de Niké y su padre, un hombre que lucha por sobrevivir a una extraña enfermedad del corazón que ni siquiera los mejores médicos logran descifrar Se trata de un libro que propone un análisis profundo que lleva al lector por el camino de su verdadero ser y del porqué de su existencia.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON is the author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Viking). A professor of history at Boston College and an expert in 19th-century America specializing in politics and economics, she is the author of the newsletter Letters from an American. Richardson's previous books include How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. She co-hosts the podcast Now and Then with Joanne Freeman.

ELIZABETH CROOK has published five previous novels, including The Which Way Tree, The Night Journal, and Monday, Monday, a Kirkus Best Book of 2014 and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. The Madstone: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company) is her latest book.

CHARLES CUMMING is a British writer of spy fiction. He's the author of nine previous books, including The Man Between (U.S. title: The Moroccan Girl); A Spy by Nature, and The Spanish Game, both Alec Milius novels; and A Foreign Country, part of a Thomas Kell trilogy. He studied at Eton College and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with 1st Honours in English literature.

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM's novels include The Hours, a New York Times bestseller and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award; A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen; and the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales and the nonfiction book Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories.

P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in the Harvard Review, The Awl, Poetry, A Public Space, Rhino, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, Monocle, and The Guardian. He lives in Miami, where he serves as the director of O, Miami and the editor of Jai-Alai Books.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, author EDWIDGE DANTICAT came to the United States at the age of 12 and long called Miami home, where she was an active member and supporter of the city’s large Haitian community. She has written numerous books, including her critically acclaimed debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; Mama’s Nightingale, a heartbreaking and beautifully illustrated picture book about immigration; The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, a memoir-like  reflection on her mother’s battle with cancer and an examination of how other writers approach the subject of death; and her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius" grant. Her inspiring words and work have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere.

LIZZIE DAVIS is a translator and writer, and an editor at Coffee House Press who has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature (translator) for Juan Cardenas' The Devil of the Provinces. Her recent projects include Cárdenas' Ornamental, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize; Elena Medel's The Wonders, co-translated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Aura García-Junco.

ANA MARGARIDA TABORDA DUARTE MARTINS DE CARVALHO is a Portuguese writer and journalist, and is the only Portuguese writer to be awarded with the Portuguese Writer Association Award (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction. Her literary debut was in 2013 with the publication of the novel Que Importa a Fúria do Mar, which was received with critical acclaim. Her first collection of short stories, Pequenos Delírios Domésticos, was released in 2017. She frequently coordinates creative writing sessions as well as literary workshops.

LUIS DE LA PAZ nació en La Habana, en 1956). Escritor y periodista residente en Miami, salió de la Isla durante el Éxodo del Mariel, en 1980. Su obra comprende poesía, narrativa y compilaciones. Escribe para Diario Las Américas y conduce Viernes de Tertulia, un evento cultural de Miami. Llega este año a la Feria con Por las paredes (El Ateje, 2023), un volumen que reúne once historias.

OLIVER DE LA PAZ is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. His work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, and Poetry, and in anthologies and periodicals such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and The New York Times. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, de la Paz teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Holden, Massachusetts.

LOURDES DEL RÍO es una periodista puertorriqueña con más de 30 años de carrera televisiva. De estos años, más de 20 han sido con la cadena Univisión. En el año 2020, plena pandemia, creó su propio podcast “En Positivo®", que más que un podcast es una forma de ver la vida y de vivirla. A través de esta plataforma entrevista a personalidades, y junto a ellos, ofrece a su audiencia claves y herramientas para vivir una vida plena, como su nombre sugiere, desde una óptica positiva.

ANJANETTE DELGADO is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for The New York Times' "Modern Love" column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Hong Kong Review, and other publications. She is also a contributor to the collection Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (Amistad). ANJANETTE DELGADO nació en Puerto Rico en 1967. Es escritora y periodista. Ha publicado La píldora del mal amor (Simon and Schuster, 2009), dos veces ganadora del Latino International Book Award, La clarividente de la Calle Ocho (Kensington Publishing & Penguin Random House, 2014) y editado Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press, 2021). Su obra ha sido publicada en numerosas antologías, así como en The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Vogue, Hostos Review, The Hong Kong Review, NPR y The New York Times. Es ganadora de un Emmy y nominada a un premio Pushcart por su ficción. Este año presenta en la Feria Ni locas ni solas. Narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos. (El Beisman Press, 2023), un volumen que reúne el trabajo de 35 autoras ubicadas a lo largo del país. El cuerpo narrativo demuestra la solidez de la voz de la mujer en español y su trascendencia dentro del mundo de las letras estadounidenses.

GRETHEL DELGADO ÁLVAREZ (La Habana, 1987). Licenciada en Dramaturgia por el Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba. Ex-residente de la Fundación Antonio Gala, España. MS en Periodismo, Florida International University. Ha publicado los libros 1987 (teatro, 2012), Mariposas (teatro, 2011), Mi familia ideal (teatro, 2009) y Necesidad de los cultos (poesía, 2009). Finalista del VII Premio Internacional Aura Estrada (2021); XVII Premio de Teatro de la Universidad de La Laguna (2014); Premio Calendario (teatro, 2012); Premio Pinos Nuevos (teatro, 2011); y Premio David (teatro, 2009). Vive en Miami. Los recuerdos duelen a uno y otro lado del Estrecho de la Florida, donde el exilio ha marcado a la literatura cubana a lo largo de generaciones de distintas maneras, en distintas épocas. En No me hablen de Cuba (SED Ediciones, 2022) Delgado nos ofrece una visión contemporánea de ese tan temido retorno a los orígenes y a los afectos del inmigrante.

GRACE DEWITT is the senior local director of The New Tropic, a daily email newsletter read by more than 35,000 of Miami's curious locals. She is a Miami native and a graduate of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In addition to her background in journalism, she is an accomplished sports marketing professional who has worked with teams and athletes across numerous sports at both the collegiate and professional levels.

RACHEL DEWOSKIN is the author of five novels – Banshee, Someday We Will Fly, Blind, Big Girl Small, and Repeat After Me – the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; and the poetry collections Two Menus and absolute animal. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall Street Journal, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).

BETTSIMAR DÍAZ es abogada, poeta, directora artística de espectáculos, conductora de imagen, productora ejecutiva y musical. Su afición por las lecturas bíblicas la impulsó a cursar estudios de posgrado de religiones en la New York University. Entre sus obras poéticas, destacan Patio interior y Los versos de Adán que Eva guardó. Participa este año en la presentación de Lugar Común/Alliteration.

EDDY DÍAZ SOUZA es un escritor y teatrista cubano, graduado de Bibliotecología en la Universidad Central de Venezuela y de Educación en Nova Southeastern University. Fundador de Artefactus Cultural Project, organización de Miami con la que ha estrenado obras teatrales para niños como El caso de la luna, Mi Platero y Pequeño, y espectáculos para adultos como Obba, de Excilia Saldaña; Gas en los poros, de Matías Montes de Huidobro, y Miénteme y Mal tiempo (y un poema sombrío), de su autoría. Dentro de la literatura infantil ha publicado libros como Cuentos de brujas y El príncipe y el mar. Este año participa en el X Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Lectura.

RUTH DICKEY is the executive director of the National Book Foundation. She has spent more than 25 years working at the intersection of community building, writing, and art. For the last 10 years, she has also served as executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, which brings the best writers and thinkers to Seattle stages and classrooms. She has led organizations in Washington, D.C.; New Orleans; Cincinnati; and Seattle to dramatically expand their community impact. Dickey holds an MFA in poetry from UNC-Greensboro, a BS in foreign service, and an MA in Latin American studies from Georgetown University. She was a 2017 fellow with the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program and served as a judge in fiction for the 2019 National Book Awards.

LISA DILLMAN translates Spanish, Catalan, and Latin American writers. She teaches in the Spanish and Portuguese department at Emory University in Atlanta. Some of her recent translations include A Silent Fury by Yuri Herrera, A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba, The Touch System by Alejandra Costamagna, and Abyss (‎World Editions) by Pilar Quintana, for which Dillman has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

JUAN DIRCIE, director de la División de Desarrollo y Asuntos Públicos de la Universidad de Tel Aviv (TAU) para América Latina, España y Portugal.

AURORA DOMINGUEZ is a high school and university educator, currently teaching journalism and English at Boca Raton High School. As for educating at universities, she is a professor in charge of teaching mass communications and journalism classes online at University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University. Dominguez has been an editor and writer at publications such as the Miami Herald and Where and J-14 magazines. In 2015 she went from the newsroom to the classroom and still freelances for a variety of publications, covering books, literature, and features. Recently, she won 2022 Teacher of the Year at Boca Raton High School, was chosen as one of 50 teachers in the United States to be honored by Walt Disney World during its 50th Anniversary Teacher Celebration, and completed her summer studies at Oxford in England on a full scholarship. There, she received a certificate in English literature with a concentration on Shakespeare and politics as well as Jane Austen. Dominguez lives with her husband, Sebastian, and cat, Luna, in Hollywood, Florida.

LUZ MARÍA DORIA nació en Cartagena, Colombia. Es periodista y productora. Actualmente se desempeña como vicepresidenta y productora ejecutiva del programa diario matutino Despierta América de la cadena Univision. Además, es conferencista, autora de La mujer de mis sueños (Aguilar, 2016), Tu momento estelar (Aguilar, 2018), y El Arte de no quedarte con las ganas (2021), publica una columna en los periódicos La Opinión de Los Ángeles y El Diario de Nueva York, y presenta el popular segmento de entrevistas Charlas con Luzma en sus plataformas digitales.

Born in Haiti, PASCALE DOXY is a renowned writer and artist, acclaimed for her vivid narratives and intricate artwork. Her YA novel, Les Enfants de la cause – published in English in 2023 as Heirs to a Cause: A Novel – traverses time and uncovers forgotten epochs of Haitian history, seamlessly blending everyday Caribbean life and the richness of Haiti’s past and mysteries. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Journal d’Étrangers (Foreign Diary) and Concerto du Coeur (Concerto of the Heart), a romantic series of works published in both French and English. Her journey with art began early, maturing through esteemed mentorships and self-learning, culminating in numerous exhibitions from Florida to North Carolina. Her innovative pieces, sparking change and intrigue, have gained international recognition. From an early affinity with watercolors, her artistic mediums evolved to bolder acrylics. The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti marked a turning point, transforming her painting from a passion to a therapeutic embodiment of her vibrant, multifaceted culture. Doxy's endeavors in writing and artistry have become a beacon of Haitian culture, offering the world a glimpse into its profound complexities and enduring spirit, while her works continue to captivate and inspire on a global scale.

CARMEN DUARTE es dramaturga y narradora. Varias de sus piezas teatrales se encuentran publicadas bajo el título ¿Cuánto me das marinero? (1994). Ha escrito las novelas Hasta la vuelta (2001), La danza de los abanicos (2006), así como Donde empieza y acaba el mundo y El inevitable rumbo de la brújula, estas últimas en Aduana Vieja en 2014 y 2016, respectivamente. Su libro de investigación Etnia, raza y sexualidad en la dramaturgia femenina hispano-caribeña en los Estados Unidos (Letra Capital, 2021) fue ganador ese mismo año de la Silver Medal en la categoría de Lengua Española, en los prestigiosos Florida Books Awards. Presenta este año en la Feria El barco que nos llevó a la guerra de Angola (Aduana Vieja, 2023). En la década de los ochenta, lo que en apariencia era un apacible crucero familiar ruso de lujo, con periódicas escalas en el tranquilo puerto de La Habana, servía como camuflaje perfecto para transportar tropas cubanas a Angola. Un barco convertido, durante una de sus travesías, en testigo del encuentro casual de dos mujeres que deciden unirse para combatir a un agresor común.

ANDRE DUBUS III is the author of Such Kindness: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company) and eight previous books, including the bestsellers Townie: A Memoir, and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award finalist in fiction and Oprah's Book Club selection.

TANANARIVE DUE is the author of The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Akashic Books), her second collection of short fiction. She has published nine previous books, including The Living Blood: A Novel, which won the 2002 American Book Award, and Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. Due and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote for Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone TV series reboot and for streamer platform Shudder's anthology film Horror Noire, for which she was executive producer, also co-wrote the Black horror novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan and named a best graphic novel of the year for 2022 by The Washington Post.

JENNIFER DUGAN is the author of the young adult novels Melt With You, Some Girls Do, Verona Comics, and Hot Dog Girl. She is also the writer/creator of the graphic novels Coven, Circadia, and Gnaw.