Six Bridges Book Festival

Marcela Fuentes & Santiago Jose Sanchez

Hear emerging voices with Marcela Fuentes (Malas) & Santiago Jose Sanchez (Hombrecito).

Marcela Fuentes, who was born and raised in Del Rio, Texas, is a Pushcart Prize–winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. The debut novel Malas follows one family living on the Texas-Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations.

Santiago Jose Sanchez, a Grinnell College assistant professor of English and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a queer Colombian American writer. They are the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship from the University of Iowa and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship from Lambda Literary. A queer coming-of-age story, Hombrecito reimagines the American immigrant narrative for a new generation, following a boy whose mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami.

Moderator: Lupe Peña de Martínez