WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"I deeply appreciate the sense of community that the conference fostered as well as the resources that were made available. Many of my colleagues were in attendance and it was a pleasure to catch up with them in a welcoming environment. "
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Saturday, May 2nd
A writer, activist, educator, speaker, and comedienne. She is also the author of Efrain's Secret and has written several hip-hop novels under the pen name Black Artemis. This self-proclaimed “Ivy League homegirl” graduated from Columbia University and lives in the Bronx.
Sofia Quintero
Sunday, May 3rd
Assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University and the co-founder of Freedom University, a Georgia-based volunteer organization that provides college instruction to undocumented youth. She specializes in Latino/Latina studies and Hispanic Caribbean literary and cultural studies with a special focus on the Dominican Republic and its Diaspora. Her research poses a dialogue among history, literature and cultural studies, paying close attention to questions of marginality, migration, and racial and ethnic identity formation.
Dr. Lorgia Garcia Peña
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Manuscript Reviewers
JOHANNA CASTILLO
Literary Agent
Writers House
Fiction,Non-fiction: Narrative, Memoir, Pop-Culture. Latinx fiction. Also representing: Middle Grade & YA
CAROLINE BLEEKE
Editor
Flatiron Books
Adult Fiction
NANCY MERCADO
Assoc. Publisher & Editorial Dir.
Penguin Random House/ Dial Books for Young Readers
Middle Grade and Young Adults or Picture Books
ADRIANA DOMINGUEZ
Literary Agent
Full Circle Literary
Fiction & Non-fiction for Children and Adults
DENISE CONEJO
Editor
Tantor Media/Freelance
Young Adult and Adult Fiction (speculative fiction, science fiction, horror, fantasy) centering Domincanx stories
LESLIE ZAMPETTI
Literary Agent
Dunham Literary
Picture books through young adult; adult mystery, upmarket romance, contemporary fiction
STUART BERNSTEIN
Literary Agent
Freelance
Fiction, non-fiction except Westerns, Romance, &History
LINDA CAMACHO
Literary Agent
Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency
MG, YA, and adult fiction (especially upmarket, women’s fiction/romance, horror); &writer-illustrators of graphic novels.
RAQUEL PENZO
Editor
Freelance
Fiction