Q&A with Alejandro Heredia, author of Loca

I’m just really inspired by writers who write about their corner of their cities and do it in a way that even a hundred years later somebody is able to connect to that place.



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On the left, a photo of KB Brookins -- a Black person with long two-colored locs -- sitting on the floor in jeans and a tshirt, laughing. On the right, Brookins's book cover -- a shirtless Black person with soft afro hair closes their eyes and birds tattooed on the person's chest fly off their body into the sky.

Q&A with KB Brookins, author of Pretty

"All the books that I’ve written so far are iterations of the same person learning more about what it means to be a Black trans person."


On the left, a photo of Ariana Benson -- a Black person dressed in a white dress and cape with an afro puff hairstyle, smiling and speaking with their hands. On the right, Benson's book cover -- several rows of glass-blown orchids hanging from an empty wood frame all on a black background.

Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral

"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."