Named as a Letras Boricuas Fellow Today, the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund announced a new cohort of Letras Boricuas Fellows, and I am proud and humbled to be named as one of them. From the foundation: “Established in 2021, the fellowship aims to identify, elevate, and amplify the voices of emerging and established Puerto Rican writers across literary genres, including fiction, creative nonfiction, children’s literature, poetry (including spoken word), and
I’ve a new, fun new story called “Last Dance” in the new anthology Mystery Most Senior, edited by John Betancourt, Michael Bracken, and Carla Coupe. Available through Wildside Press. The anthology features elder-oriented mystery and suspense stories by William Ade, Brenda Buchanan, Ellen Byron, Marla Cooper, Brian Cox, Mac Daly, Annette Dashofy, Kate Gallison, Patricia Gouthro, Matthew Greene, Christina Hoag, Eleanor Ingbretson, Frances McNamara, Sharon Michalove, Donalee Moulton, me, Nancy
My story “Room for Rent” (previously published in Latinx Rising) was translated into Spanish for this new anthology, Máquinas Mestizas: Antología de ciencia ficción latinoamericanas, edited by Luis Carlos Barragán, for the Loqueleo (Colombia) imprint of Santillana Publishing. My Spanish is dubious, so Juan Silva did a great job. Big gracias to Luis for inviting me and for giving this story another home.