Lilliam Rivera is a 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2013 Enchanted Land Fellow from A Room Of Her Own Foundation, and a James Kirkwood Literary Prize semi-finalist. She lives in Los Angeles and is currently completing a contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life.
Writer and journalist Cristina García talks about her latest novel, King of Cuba, how she came to write about Fidel Castro as an octogenarian, and returning to Cuba after more than a decade's absence.
Novelist Matt de la Peña chats about his love for multicultural literature, the revision process, and how his 2010 book, Mexican WhiteBoy, came to be banned from schools.