Three authors who write in Spanish from the Southeast you should know

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Oswaldo Estrada (Santa Ana, California, 1976) is a Peruvian-American writer. He is the author of a children’s book, El secreto de los trenes (2018), and of three collections of short stories, Luces de emergencia (Valparaíso Ediciones 2019, 2020; Maquinaciones Narrativa, 2021), Las locas ilusiones y otros relatos de migración (Axiara, 2020), and Las guerras perdidas (Sudaquia 2021). He has edited the volume Incurables. Relatos de dolencias y males (Ars Communis, 2020) with twenty Latin American authors who live in the US. In 2020, he won two International Latino Book Awards, as well the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize from Tufts University. He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Melanie Márquez Adams is the author of a collection of short stories, Mariposas Negras (2017), and of two collections of personal essays, Querencia: crónicas de una latinoamericana en USA (2020) and El país de las maravillas: crónicas de mi sueño americano (2021). An advocate of Spanish-language writers in the U.S., Melanie holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her most recent fiction and non-fiction can be found in Puerto del Sol, Spansglish Voces, Huellas Magazine, and Escritorxs Salvajes: 37 Hispanic Writers in the United States. An International Latino Book Award winner, Melanie is the founder and editor-in-chief of Anfibias Literarias. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.​
Raúl Carrillo Arciniega (La Paz, BCS, México, 1972) has published books of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Mexico and the United States. His novel, Hotel Francés won the Altamirano International Narrative Award in 2021. His novel Tenesí Ríver  (2017) received the Ciudad de La Paz Novel Award in 2015. He has published the novels, En la tierra de Op (2009) and Los indomables (2012), the poetry collections, Nauta herido (2009), Afonía (2015) and China Girl (2020), and the essays of literary criticism, Huellas y oquedades (2007), De heroes, amoríos y sufrimientos (2014), Mitografía del poeta (2015), and Noticias del destierro (2017). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at College of Charleston, in South Carolina.
11/10/2021
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