Arts
Claribel and Kat discuss current events including conversations around American Dirt. They also interview Literary Agent Quressa Robinson about her path to becoming an agent, what she thinks the industry should do to provide support to POC, and her MSWL! Follow Quressa: Twitter | Website Mentions: https://blog.leeandlow.com/2020/01/28/2019diversitybaselinesurvey/ Original ‘American Dirt’ review by Myriam Gurba NPR interview about American Dirt ‘American Dirt’ Isn’t Just Bad — Its Best Parts Are Cribbed From Latino Writers by David J Schmidt (Huffington Post) Cummin’s Non-Mexican Crap by David Bowles (Medium) Novels by Mexican and Latinx Authors to read: Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario Across the Wire by Luis Alberto Urrea By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Alberto Urrea A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez SCBWI events/workshops Nelson Literary Agency Follow Claribel Ortega online: Twitter | Instagram | Youtube Order GHOST SQUAD Add FRIZZY on Goodreads www.claribelortega.com Follow Kat Cho online: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok Order WICKED FOX! Order VICIOUS SPIRITS (sequel to WICKED FOX) Add ONCE UPON A K-PROM on Goodreads www.katchowrites.com Follow Write or Die online: Twitter | Instagram Write or Die Podcast Website Join our WorDie community!