Authors

GERMÁN GUERRA nació en Guantánamo, Cuba, en 1966. Poeta, fotógrafo y editor. Ha publicado Dos poemas (Strumento, 1998), Libro de metal (Dylemma, 1998), Libro de silencio (EntreRíos, 2007), Oficio de tinieblas (Aduana Vieja, 2014), Nadie ante el espejo (Bokeh, 2017) y Los espejos los sueños la muerte (Piedra de Sísifo, 2020). Prologó y fueron incluidos varios de sus poemas en Reunión de ausentes: Antología de poetas cubanos (Término, 1998), textos suyos también aparecieron en Island of My Hunger: Cuban Poetry Today (City Lights, 2007), en la Antología de la poesía cubana del exilio (Aduana Vieja, 2011) y en 13 poetas (Hypermedia, 2017). Reside en Miami desde 1992. Este año presenta en la Feria su Antología personal 1998-2018 (Ediciones Furtivas), donde el autor reunió bajo el mismo título los poemas de su preferencia y los textos más representativos de más de un cuarto de siglo de labor poética y seis poemarios publicados. Al final del libro se puede encontrar un cuadernillo titulado “Breviario de soledad”, suerte de colofón que recoge seis poemas inéditos hasta la fecha.

ROBIN HA grew up reading and drawing comics. At 14, she moved to the U.S. from Seoul, Korea. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, she moved to New York City and started a career in the fashion industry. Her work has been published in independent comic anthologies including Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (The New Press) and The Strumpet, as well as in the pages of Marvel Comics and Heavy Metal magazine. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling comic recipe book, Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes (Ten Speed Graphic). Visit Ha online at banchancomic.tumblr.com.

NAIA HANNAH HAAST (Naia Hannah meaning “blooming flower” and which, in the 1950s, was also the scientific name for the king cobra) grew up in Miami in wonderfully unique surroundings: the Miami Serpentarium. After being involved with theater and film productions in California for many years, she moved with her husband to Connecticut, and several years ago started designing one-of-a-kind, completely handmade, tooled leather products, capturing the beauty and expression of exotic and endangered animals. Inspired by her mother and in loving memory of her father, Haast founded the King Cobra Conservancy in 2016. KCC has rapidly grown and is now supporting king cobra research projects around the world.

TAYLOR HAHN is the author of The Lifestyle: A Novel (Anchor) and the novella The Wedding, the Winery, and Will (Vintage). She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and Fordham University School of Law, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Visit her online at www.taylorhahn.com or find her on social media as @taylorsheahahn.

GARTH RISK HALLBERG, named a best young American novelist by Granta in 2017, debut, has seen his work translated into 17 languages. His debut book of fiction, City on Fire: A Novel (Knopf), was a New York Times and international bestseller, and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Vogue. It was the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. Hallberg is also the author of the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family (Mark Batty Publisher).

SIDNEY HALSTON is the pen name of Jeanette Escudero, who worked as an attorney before starting, at 30 years old, to write something other than legal briefs. Halston is the USA Today bestselling author of multiple romance series. Born in Miami to Cuban parents, she currently lives in South Florida with her husband and three children, in whom she’s instilled a love of nature and an appreciation for the planet.

DANIEL HANDLER is the author of seven works of fiction – including Why We Broke Up: A Novel (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), All The Dirty Parts: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA), and Bottle Grove: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing) – and most recently the memoir And Then? And Then? What Else? (Liveright). As Lemony Snicket, he has written many children’s books, including Poison for Breakfast (Liveright); the four-volume All The Wrong Questions (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); and the 13-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events (Egmont), which was adapted for screen and television. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown.

KATHLEEN HANNA is a punk singer, writer, artist, and the frontwoman of the influential bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, a tale told in her memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Ecco), which was an instant New York Times bestseller. Hanna is a staple in feminist publications, from college curriculums to bestselling books, and a leading voice in the punk feminist movement. She has been named one of the best live performers of our time, earning acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR, Interview Magazine, V Magazine, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, BUST Magazine, NYLON, and The Los Angeles Times, to name a few.

DONNA HEMANS is the author of The House of Plain Truth (Zibby Books), River Woman, and Tea By the Sea, which won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Ms., and Crab Orchard Review, among others. She is also the owner of DC Writers Room, a co-working studio for writers based in Washington, D.C. Born in Jamaica, she lives in Maryland and received her undergraduate degree in English and media studies from Fordham University, and an MFA from American University.

JOHN HENDRIX is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. His books include the young adult graphic novel The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler – a YALSA Nonfiction Excellence in Nonfiction Award finalist – and the picture books Go and Do Likewise!: The Parables and Wisdom of Jesus, Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, A Civil War Hero. He is also the author-artist behind the adult books The Holy Ghost: A Spirited Comic and Drawing Is Magic: Discovering Yourself in a Sketchbook. He is chair of the MFA Illustration and Visual Culture program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Hendrix lives in Webster Groves, Missouri.

CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ is the author of The Great Divide: A Novel (Ecco), The Book of Unknown Americans, The World In Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Illinois.

NIDIA HERNÁNDEZ was born in Venezuela and has lived in the United States since 2018. She is a poet, translator of Portuguese poetry, editor, broadcaster, and radio producer. Her editorial project, LaMajaDesnuda.com, won the 2011 World Summit Awards, and her radio program, also called La Maja Desnuda, has presented works of the last 35 years with more than 1,820 broadcasts. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM Spain. Hernández curates Poesiaudio (Arrowsmith Press, Boston); is a co-editor for Mercurius Magazine, a British publication based in Barcelona; and belongs to the board of directors of the New England Poetry Club. She is the winner of the 2021 Sundara Ramaswamy Prize for her editorial work on The Land of Mild Light: Selected Poems by Rafael Cadenas (Arrowsmith Press). In 2022, she published a new anthology, The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets (Arrowsmith), which won the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award.

BENJAMIN HEROLD explores America's beautiful and busted public schools. His award-winning reporting has appeared on NPR and PBS NewsHour, and in Education Week, Huffington Post, WHYY, The Hechinger Report, and the Public School Notebook. Herold has a master's degree in urban education from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he lives with his family.

ADRIANA HERRERA is a USA Today bestselling and Audie Award-winning author who was born and raised in the Caribbean. For the last 15 years, she has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her getting unapologetically happy endings. The New York Times called her book "sweet, thoughtful, and delightfully filthy too." When she’s not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family, or hunting for discount Broadway tickets, Herrera is a trauma therapist in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

ADRIANA HERRERA is a USA Today bestselling and Audie Award-winning author who was born and raised in the Caribbean. For the last 15 years, she has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her getting unapologetically happy endings. The New York Times called her book "sweet, thoughtful, and delightfully filthy too." When she’s not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family, or hunting for discount Broadway tickets, Herrera is a trauma therapist in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

NÉLSON HINCAPIÉ es actualmente el Director Ejecutivo de la Fundación del Miami Dade College. Antes de trabajar en MDC, fue Presidente y CEO de la Fundación Voices For Children durante más de 12 años. Ha sido fundamental en la creación de políticas y programas de apoyo a jóvenes que salen del arrera de acogida y ha trabajado directamente con cientos de jóvenes como mentor, tutor y guía. Además de dar una de las charlas Tedx más auténticas y poderosas on line, Nélson ha sido conferencista invitado en MAS Talks de Miami Arts Studio, clases de Justicia Criminal en MDC, la Conferencia Nacional del Instituto Daniel Memorial, el Centro de Recursos Familiares y Conferencias Regionales del DCF. Comenzó su arrera en el gobierno como parte del equipo que lideró la exitosa arrera estatal para el Universal  Pre-K. Más tarde, como coordinador en Florida Central para la arrera al Senado de EE. UU. De Alex Penelas, tuvo la oportunidad de arrera muchos condados de Florida, actuando como orador sustituto para el alcalde Penelas. En 2005 se unió al Comisionado del Condado de Miami-Dade Carlos A. Giménez como Asistente, donde se encargó de políticas, legislación, uso de tierras, relaciones con los medios y asuntos de los constituyentes. Nélson también fue enlace del Comisionado Giménez con organizaciones comunitarias. Fue nombrado en The Children’s Trust por el alcalde Carlos A. Giménez, donde forma parte del comité ejecutivo y preside el comité ad-hoc de Estatutos. Ha sido arrera del Comité Asesor de Organizaciones Basadas en la Comunidad, creado por los Comisionados del Condado de Miami-Dade, y ha formado parte de la Comisión del Bicentenario de Abraham Lincoln para Miami. También ha sido miembro de la Junta Directiva de la Coalición Colombo Americana. Nélson tiene una licenciatura en Administración Pública de la Universidad Internacional de Florida y un título en Artes Culinarias de la Universidad Johnson & Wales, y es un Académico Ejecutivo Kellogg de la Escuela de Administración. Nativo de Bogotá, Colombia, Nélson está arrer con Carolina; la pareja tiene cuatro hijos: Sarah Luna, Simón Lorenzo, Samuel Luciano y Salomé Lucía. Hincapié llega a la Feria con Tu historia, su primer libro en español. A pesar de siempre haber tenido el deseo de escribirlo, solo lo logró después de poder perdonar. Su historia es una historia llena de arrera a pesar de muchos contratiempos, que casi siempre eran causados por su falta de conciencia. Nelson lleva al lector por una montaña rusa de emociones que concluye en un carrusel de resiliencia, arrera y la convicción de que Dios puede hacer todo nuevo.  

WENDY HINSHAW is an associate professor of English and the director of writing programs at Florida Atlantic University. Her scholarship includes articles on prison writing and prison-university partnerships in Community Literacy Journal, Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, Feminist Formations, and edited collections on prison literacy and activism. She is a founding board member of Exchange for Change, a Miami-based nonprofit that provides educational and communication skills-building courses to students who are incarcerated, to amplify and bring their voices to the outside.

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, BRANDON HOÀNG grew up coveting The Baby-Sitters Club books and slurping noodles. Before he was a writer, he spent 10 years as an animation executive. He has worked on series such as Avatar: The Legend of Korra, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Ghost and Molly McGee. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

CARLIE HOFFMAN is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books), coming spring 2025; When There Was Light (Four Way Books), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers & Authors Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. She is the translator from the German of White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions) and Selma Meerbaum Eisinger's Blütenlese (World Poetry Books, forthcoming). Her honors include a 92NY "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award, and her work has been published in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Slowdown, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. Hoffman is also is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.

ANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), The Obituary Writer: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), and The Book That Matters Most: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), as well as the memoirs Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food (W. W. Norton & Company), Fly Girl: A Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company), and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (W. W. Norton & Company), which was named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2008. Hood has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, and Best American Travel Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing awards. Her most recent book is The Stolen Child: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company).

MARIE HOWE is a former poet laureate of New York. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

STEPHEN HUNDLEY is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press). He is a fiction editor at Driftwood Press and a book review editor at the Southeast Review, and his stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He holds a master's degree from Clemson and an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in English at Florida State University.

SWAN HUNTLEY’s novels include I Want You More, Getting Clean With Stevie Green, The Goddesses, and We Could Be Beautiful. She is also the writer and illustrator of the darkly humorous The Bad Mood Book and You’re Grounded. Swan earned an MFA at Columbia University and has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo, where she was the 2019 recipient of The LeSage-Fullilove Residency. She lives in Los Angeles.

GREG ILES’ first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of many New York Times bestsellers. His Natchez Burning trilogy continued the story of Penn Cage, the protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and No. 1  New York Times bestseller The Devil’s Punchbowl. Iles’ novels have been made into films and published in more than 35 countries. He is a member of the lit-rock group the Rock Bottom Remainders, and lives in Natchez, Mississippi, with his wife and three children.

ROSIE INGUANZO Nació en La Habana. Escritora, actriz y performer. Puede vérsele caracterizando a Eslinda Cifuentes, en las performances que realiza junto al violinista y compositor Alfredo Triff. Doctorada en Español y Literatura Iberoamericana, ejerce el profesorado. Ha publicado la novela La Habana sentimental (Bokeh, Leiden, 2018) y los libros de poesía Deseo de donde se era (Nos y otros Editores, Madrid, 2001), La vida de la vida (Hypermedia, Miami, 2018), Baladas crueles (Ediciones Furtivas, Miami, 2023). Se ha escrito sobre ella: “Rosie Inguanzo, escritora, actriz de la novela cubana de Miami que es la novela pública maravillosa de todos los días sobre la faz del exilio, acopla su cuerpo y su pensamiento al amorío conceptual de su marido, una orgía verbal-instrumental a base de dos cabezas.” —Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (El Estornudo). "Extraordinaria actriz, autora y directora de teatro y escritora que busca la impunidad ante el atrevimiento, Rosie encarna la "meta posmodernidad" –Olga Connor. Rosie participa este año en la Feria conversando con los poetas Germán Guerra, Lizzette Espinosa y Carlos Pintado.

JESSICA JACOBS is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with Genesis (Four Way Books); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards; and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Jacobs is also the co-author of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire. She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.

ABRAHAM JIMÉNEZ ENOA Escribió los libros La isla oculta y Aterrizar en el mundo. Fue columnista en The Washington Post. Ha publicado en The New York Times, BBC, El País, Al Jazeera, Gatopardo, entre otros medios. Ganó el premio Libertad de Prensa Internacional del Comité para la Protección de Periodistas (CPJ), el Sigma Delta Chi Awards de The Society of Professional Journalists, el Premio a la Excelencia Periodística de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP), el One Young World Journalist of the Year Award, el Lyra Mckee Award for Bravery y la beca Michael Jacobs de la Fundación Gabo. Cofundó El Estornudo. Este año presenta en la Feria Aterrizar en el mundo (Libros del KO), donde Jiménez Enoa alterna las impresiones de su llegada a Europa con los recuerdos de sus últimos años en Cuba. Evoca la magia de haber fundado con un grupo de amigos jóvenes la revista de periodismo independiente El Estornudo. El régimen aplastaría rápido ese intento de contar la realidad de Cuba al margen de los eslóganes castristas. Pronto comenzaron los arrestos e interrogatorios, y las represalias laborales a familiares y amigos. Pasó a ser un apestado social, incluso para algunas de sus personas más queridas, como su abuela, que antepuso su fe en la Revolución al amor por su nieto.

ESKOR DAVID JOHNSON is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago, acclaimed for his imaginative storytelling and exploration of urban life. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received recognition for his distinct narrative style and compelling character portrayals. His debut novel, Pay As You Go (2023), delves into the gritty realities of urban existence through the journey of Slide, a barber navigating the challenges of city life in the fictional metropolis of Polis. The book is praised for its vibrant prose and inventive storytelling, capturing the complexities and aspirations of its characters. Johnson's work has been featured in publications like BOMB magazine and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and he has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize​.