Cleyvis Natera is the author of the forthcoming novel Neruda on the Park from Ballantine Books. Her fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, TIME, Gagosian Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review, Aster(ix), and Kweli Journal, among others. She’s received fellowships and awards from PEN America, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others.
Reyna Grande is the author of several books, including the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (Atria, 2012) and the sequel, A Dream Called Home, released in 2018. Her latest novel, A…