Library-in-progress of Las Dos Brujas authors

Hi Everyone,

I’m so delighted to put together this library-in-progress of our works. I’ll be updating this list periodically so please post your book(s) in the comments section if you haven’t already done so.

Look at all this great summer reading—and well beyond!

Here we go:

A LIBRARY-IN-PROGRESS OF LAS DOS BRUJAS AUTHORS (in alphabetical order):

Aracelis González Asendorf: Dressing the Saints (Black Lawrence Press, Jan 2024)

Gina Balibrera: The Volcano Daughters (Pantheon, 2024)

Marlena Maduro Baraf: At the Narrow Waist of the World (a memoir, 2019). Substack address: breathinginspanish.substack.com 

Jane Ciabattari: Stealing the Fire: Stories (DZanc Books)

Cecilia Fernandez: Grieving for Guavas, Stories (University Press of Kentucky) and Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami’s Cuban Ghetto (Beating Windward Press)

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa: Daughters of the Stone, A Woman of Endurance, and Indómita. Website: www.dahlmallanosfigueroa.com

Adela Najarro: Split Geography, Twice Told Over, My Childrens, and Volcanic Interruptions. Website: https://adelanajarro.com/

Alejandro Nodarse: Blood in the Cut (Flatiron, Summer 2024)

Achy Obejas: Boomerang/Bumerán, The Tower of Antilles, Havana Noir, This is What Happened in Our Other Lives, Days of Awe, Memory Mambo and We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like That?

Susan Praver-Perez: Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters (Nomadic Press, 2021) and Return Against the Flow (Black Lawrence Press, Feb. 2024). Website: susanpraverperez.com

Aleida Socorras: When the Flying Nun Crashed and For Freedom’s Sake

Cherry Lou Sy: Love Can’t Feed You (Dutton, Fall 2024)

Marisel Vera: If I Bring You Roses (Grand Central, 2011), and The Taste of Sugar (Liveright, 2020). Website: www.mariselvera.com

Richard Wiley: Soldiers in Hiding, Fools’ Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Indigo, Ahmed’s Revenge, Commodore Perry’s Minstrel Show, The Book of Important Moments, Bob Stevenson, Tacoma Stories, The Griever’s Group. In progress: Anatomy of A Novel, The Hotel Shalom.

Happy reading!

Abrazos,

Cristina