She also is a stunningly skilled DJ, even co-founding a collective for Latina DJs in a space that has historically been run by white men. These days, she has co-founded Portland in Color, a directory of BIPOC creatives to foster creative collaborations with industry professionals. The critically acclaimed book won the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award and was a finalist for the 2021 Foreward Indies Book of the Year. She first made her literary debut with Examining Assimilation and followed it up with her nonfiction essay collection Funeral for Flaca. Known for her vulnerability, boldness, and honesty, the Mexican American writer frequently writes about identity, history, sexuality, queerness, racism, xenophobia, and Latinx culture.

Emilly PradoĪ post shared by Emilly Prado / DJ Mami Miami Prado is a writer, journalist, educator, and DJ based in Portland, Oregon and originally from Redwood and Belmont, California. Keep an eye out for her new novel I am Deliberate, coming out soon. The memoir won a slew of awards following its publication including a Whiting Award in Nonfiction and a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal. Growing up as a queer biracial girl in between Puerto Rico and Miami inspired her to write and publish short stories and essays in publications as an adult, as well as her debut Ordinary Girls. Jaquira Díaz Photo: Díaz is an Afro-Boricua writer who has dabbled in a bunch of different genres including fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and cultural criticism. Maldonado has garnered acclaim and many awards for her work to represent fat queer brown girls just like her and continues to write for and celebrate her many communities. Her follow-up, No Filter and Other Lies centers a fat Puerto Rican American teenager discovering her bisexuality, navigating social media, and following her passion for photography-all while catfishing as one of her models online. She first became known for her YA debut, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, a coming-of-age story about a fat brown girl in Connecticut falling in love while struggling with body positivity and self-acceptance. Crystal Maldonado is a YA author committed to writing stories about fat, queer, brown girls living their best lives.

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