8 Hispanic and Latine YA Authors You Should Definitely Read

Emery Lee is simply a overmuch newer YA author. So far, e has published 2 modern romances: Meet Cute Diary and Café Con Lychee. Emery besides collaborated successful the anthology All Signs Point to Yes, which is afloat of beauteous romanticist stories with multicultural characters.

Eir 2021 debut, Meet Cute Diary, is simply a fake-dating benignant of romance that is afloat of trans joyousness and analyzable relationships. I couldn’t picture it amended than writer Aiden Thomas, who said the publication is “both about, and for, helping transgender younker consciousness connected, seen, and worthy of not conscionable an epic conscionable cute, but a happily ever after.”

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Elizabeth Acevedo is an award-winning writer champion known for her novels-in-verse specified arsenic The Poet X, which won the National Book Award and the Pura Belpre Award. It follows a miss named Xiomara, who is exploring her individuality and her voice. The Poet X is her astir fashionable publication according to Goodreads, although Clap When You Land and With the Fire connected High are besides well-loved by readers. The second adjacent landed a movie deal erstwhile it was published successful 2019, though determination haven’t been immoderate developments yet.

Besides her 3 novels, she has besides published a poesy postulation called Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths, a ocular poem titled Inheritance, and adjacent a diary inspired by The Poet X called Write Yourself A Lantern.

Crystal Maldonado is besides a newer YA author. She has written 2 modern coming-of-age romances with LGBTQ+ rep and assemblage positivity. The books are called Fat Chance, Charlie Vega and No Filter and Other Lies.

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega is her debut. Published successful 2021, it won that year’s New England Book Award successful the YA category. The communicative follows Charlie, a miss who wants a bully narration with her assemblage — adjacent if everyone astir her wants her to beryllium smaller, whiter, quieter. Her BFF Amelia seems to beryllium the lone 1 connected her corner. When a lad named Brian asks her retired and Charlie finds retired that helium asked Amelia first, things get messy.

Aiden Thomas is the archetypal trans New York Times best-selling writer acknowledgment to their debut caller titled Cemetery Boys. It was published successful 2020 and nominated for a clump of awards specified arsenic the Lodestar Award. The communicative follows a young brujo named Yadriel, who accidentally summons the shade of the schoolhouse atrocious lad named Julian. Julian died nether mysterious circumstances, and Yadriel has nary prime but to assistance him find retired the truth.

Besides Cemetery Boys, Thomas has written 2 books much queer and magical books: Lost successful the Never Woods, a Peter Pan retelling, and The Sunbearer Trials, which is the archetypal successful a phantasy duology inspired by Mexican mythology.

Isabel Ibañez has written 3 magical phantasy novels since her debut successful 2020. starting with Woven successful Moonlight and its sequel, Written successful Starlight. The erstwhile follows a Condesa named Ximena, who is connected a revenge-fueled ngo to overthrow Atoc — the usurper. Ximena is hunting for his past relic which volition assistance her crook the tables. And it’s each inspired by Bolivian authorities and history. The full communicative is filled with magic, romance, and governmental intrigue. Much similar her different novels.

Speaking of which, Ibañez besides has a stand-alone caller titled Together We Burn — and has a abbreviated communicative featured successful the Reclaim the Stars anthology.

Tehlor Kay Mejia has written some YA and mediate people stories since her debut successful 2019. Her main YA bid begins with We Set the Dark connected Fire, which won the Oregon Spirit Book Award. It follows a miss named Daniela Vargas successful a dystopian nine successful which women are trained for household duties. It’s besides a communicative astir forbidden emotion and the combat for equality.

Tehlor Kay Mejia has besides written the Paola Santiago mediate people series. And her enactment is featured successful respective abbreviated communicative anthologies, including Toil & Trouble, The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities, and Our Shadows Have Claws. Her adjacent YA phantasy publication is called Lucha of the Night Forest, and it volition beryllium published successful aboriginal 2023!

Last but not least, Zoraida Córdova has besides written big and mediate people fiction. But her enactment is chiefly YA — and she loves to constitute astir magical creatures and mythology. Zoraida Córdova has really published much than a twelve books successful her vocation since she debuted successful 2012 with a publication astir mermaids titled The Vicious Deep. Labyrinth Lost, the archetypal successful the Brooklyn Brujas series, is her astir fashionable YA book. It follows a young bruja named Alex, who accidentally sends her full household to the underworld — and present has to prevention them.

Zoraida has besides written for the Star Wars universe, specified arsenic successful A Crash of Fate. And she has contributed to respective anthologies similar Vampires Never Get Old, Come On In, From a Certain Point of View, and Reclaim the Stars.