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L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With David Bowles
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. He has written over two dozen award-winning titles, most notably They Call Me Güero and My Two Border Towns.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Mirelle Ortega
Mirelle Ortega is a Mexican illustrator and writer for kidlit and Animation based in Los Angeles, CA.
Interview With an Author: Luivette Resto
Luivette Resto attended Cornell University, where she earned her BA in English Literature and a minor in U.S. Latinx history.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Claudia Castro Luna
Claudia Castro Luna served as Washington’s State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021), is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2017).
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Daniel Olivas
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of ten books, including How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press), and Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press).
Interview With an Author: Liz Michalski
A former reporter and editor, Liz Michalski now crafts articles on human interest, living, and health as a freelance writer.
![Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/whats_on_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-08/library.jpg?itok=2_bqCD1s "Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946] Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection. Contemporary photos by the author.")
Dig Los Angeles: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
With locations all over the city and lots of books and other materials devoted to local history, libraries are a perfect springboard for exploring Los Angeles. This is the third in a series of blog posts that digs into local history near a Los Angeles Public Library branch.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, most recently, her poem, “Battlegrounds” was featured at Poets.org and On Being’s Poetry Unbound.
Eminent El Pasoans
I grew up in El Paso in the 1970s and 80s, a city that wraps around the Franklin Mountains out on the tip of west Texas, adjoining Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande in Chihuahua and a short drive from New Mexico to the north.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Donna Barba Higuera
Donna Barba Higuera grew up in a tiny desert town in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. Rather than wrangling dust devils, she’d spend recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book.