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We are delighted to announce the official selections for Latino Book Review’s 2026 Magazine Issue. This year’s issue brings together an exceptional collection of literature and visual art that reflects the creativity, complexity, and diversity of Latinx voices. Featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork, the selected works explore a wide range of experiences, perspectives, and artistic approaches. We look forward to sharing this remarkable issue with readers soon. Stay tuned for the official release.

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INTERVIEW 
REYNA GRANDE | Growing Into Her Name 

POETRY
JAVIER VILLARREAL | Abuelo Inez
​NATASHA MIJARES | The Right Kind of Animal
LUCY NORTON | Simp’aykuna
R. JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ | Laika 
AÍDA ALMANZA-FERRO | Belonging in Translation
AMADO MARTE TAVERAS  | I Saw a Mask & Fortune’s Wheel 
JIMENA LARRAGUIVEL | You Want What?
KATHERINE BAHENA-BENITEZ | El Sueño Americano 
JESSICA DIAZ | Encanto 
SANDRA ARREGUÍN, EdD | Cenote & 15 de septiembre en Chicago
LEÓN GUERRERO | I - Sheet Metal and Bone & II - Gold and Flesh 
SANTIAGO DAYDI-TOLSON | Heels & Swan 
ADRIANA M. MARTÍNEZ FIGUEROA | To Harry S. Truman (1950)   
RAFAEL CÁRDENAS ALDRETE | Infinite Father 
GRISEL Y. ACOSTA, PhD | What I Think of When Crossing the Border 
AZALEA AGUILAR | Darling Donations  
MARIANA RIESTRA | El bordo  
ERIKA AYÓN | Autumn Fields
CHRISTIAN SILVA | Intifiada Lamentations on Mango Street & Return from Tenochtitlan (War) 
DEJA ALIYAH BANNER | Rumpopo 
ROSSY EVELIN LIMA PhD | The Good Mother
CLAUDIA EXCARET SANTOS |
Mexican Hands
GAVIN GARZA | On Baking, or I Live In Berkeley Now and Everyone is a Fresa 
EMANUEL XAVIER | What I Wanted You to Be 
DIANA YALINNE TAVERA | A House With No Door & The Crease 
VISUAL ART
GABRIEL CHÁVEZ ZECKUA | Built in Color - Drone Photography Collection 
ABRAHAM MOJICA | Painting Collection

FICTION
LEAH ARIANA SILVA, PhD | La niña del espejo
ETNA ÁVALOS, PhD | Almost
BRYAN BETANCUR | A Stranger Story: Wren, the Café Nurse-Muse
ELAINE NADAL | How Do You Forget? 
VICTOR BENAVIDES | Güerita 
DANIEL BARRIOS | The Sign of Peace 
IVÁN MEDINA CASTRO | Blood and Sand

MEMOIRS
CHRISTINA MONTOYA | 8 
CAMILO RODRÍGUEZ | From Building to Rubble 

BOOK REVIEW
PEDRO POITEVIN | Rhina P. Espaillat’s ‘And After All’  

ESSAYS
ANA KAREN FLORES PEREGRINA | The Literariness of Twenty-First-Century Narrative in Latin America 
VIRGINIA HERNÁNDEZ RETA | The Flow in Elena Garro's "Our Lives are the Rivers”  
PAULINA LONGORIA | Queering the Barrio: Chicanx Vampires and Latinx Resistance in Terri de la Peña’s “Refugio” 
PRISCILLA GAC-ARTIGAS, PhD | ‘Putinoika’ by Giannina Braschi: Collectfiction and the Poetics of Decomposition

​6/22/2026
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