Tucson Festival of Books

¡Ay, Amor!: Latinxs in Love


Love comes in all shapes, sizes and colors, just like the books by these panelists! Love is messy, love is beautiful, love is funny, love is daring, and these writers capture love in all its full, chaotic glory. Get ready to fall head over heels for their compelling stories and characters. (Unfortunately, Alejandro Varela will not take part in this session as originally planned.)


Panelists
Jaclyn Rodriguez

Forever drawn to magic and the impossible, Jaclyn Rodriguez is a biracial author of Puerto Rican heritage who has been madly in love with fantasy since before she could walk. If there are high stakes and intricate world-building, she’s in, and she adores a strong romantic subplot, the more complicated the better....

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Jonny Garza Villa

Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the great state of Texas, a Sagittarius sun and Capricorn everything else. They consider themself a former, very bad, baseball player and former, pretty good, drag queen....


Books:
A Vow in Vengeance
Jaclyn Rodriguez
Romance
Zando/Slowburn
October 2025
ISBN 9781638932543
368 pages

Futbolista
Jonny Garza Villa
Romance
Levine Querido
March 2025
ISBN 9781646145096
400 pages