Natalia Sylester (BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN) & Lupita Aquino
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Natalia Sylester (BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN) & Lupita Aquino (Lupita Reads), hosted by Duende District with The Word
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Monday, May 16 at 6 PM EST/4PM MST
BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN: Natalia Sylvester with Lupita Aquino (Lupita Reads)
Host: Duende District and The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary
via YouTube Live
Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry. CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad Magazine and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME won an International Latino Book Award and the 2019 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her debut YA novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and her sophomore YA, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, will be out in May 2022 from HarperCollins. Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing, and have been widely anthologized. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now lives and writes in South Florida. | Twitter/Instagram: @nataliasylv.
Lupita Aquino--better known as Lupita Reads-- is a passionate literary enthusiast amplifying and highlighting books written by authors of color through her Instagram blog. She currently lives in the greater Washington D.C area, and you can find her on Instagram at @lupita.reads, on Twitter at @Lupita_Reads, or catch her writing about books for She Reads dot com or via her column over at Washington Independent Review of Books.
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