Tucson Festival of Books

Ways to Love


Join writers Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Daniel Olivas, Jessica Parra, and Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and hear stories from the heart about all forms of love.


Panelists
Prisca Rodríguez

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, born in Managua, Nicaragua, is a feminist storyteller and founder of Latina Rebels, a platform with over 300,000 followers. Her latest book, "Tías & Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us," celebrates the powerful bonds of Latinx womanhood....

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Daniel Olivas

Daniel Olivas is the author of 12 books, including "Chicano Frankenstein" and "My Chicano Heart."  Widely anthologized, he has written on literature and culture for The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Zocálo, Latino Book Review, and Alta Journal....

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Jessica Parra

As a lawyer and daughter of Guatemalan and Cuban bakers, Jessica Parra never objects to an extra slice of cake. She’s a Los Angeles native who loves to write about Latinas with big hair (and chasing even bigger dreams), complicated families, and the healing magic of acceptance....

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Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Pura Belpré Award–winning Mexican American poet, novelist and painter. She received her BA in cultural anthropology from the University of West Florida and her MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Anchorage....


Books:
Tías and Primas
On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
Prisca Rodríguez
Nuestras Raices
Seal Press
September 2024
ISBN 9781541603950
304 pages

My Chicano Heart
New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions
Daniel Olivas
Nuestras Raices
University of Nevada Press
August 2024
ISBN 9781647791346
216 pages
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The Quince Project
A Novel
Jessica Parra
Nuestras Raices
St. Martin's Publishing Group
May 2024
ISBN 9781250888518
336 pages
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Lightning in Her Hands
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Romance
Penguin Publishing Group
October 2024
ISBN 9780593548592
352 pages
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