Huizache’s tenth issue is here! We celebrate this milestone with a special edition dust jacket that pays homage to legendary Chicana writer Helena María Viramontes, whose fascinating novel-in-progress is excerpted inside. We also feature the work of living icon Gioconda Belli, stellar short stories from Charles Rice-Gonzalez and Michael Jaime-Becerra, and a previously unpublished novel excerpt from the late Colombian queer poet and activist tatiana de la tierra. As in every issue, Huizache presents a stunningly diverse array of poetry that spans generations and communities, including Achy Obejas, Virgil Suárez, Robert Fernandez, Manuel Paul López, Barbara Jane Reyes, Monica Sok, José Antonio Rodríguez, and Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones, as well as works in translation from Dominican poet Homero Pumarol and Indigenous Mexican poet Nadia López García. Huizache is also proud to highlight the work of exciting emerging voices such as Shelby Pinkham, Joseph Aaron Cárdenas, and M. Cynthia Cheung. Huizache’s tenth issue bursts with writers challenging, subverting, and upending the dominant narratives that reinforce the status quo—together this chorus of voices forges a vision of a new America.

We will be celebrating with a reading by contributors:

Achy Obejas is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Boomerang/Bumerán, The Tower of the Antilles, a PEN/Faulkner finalist, Ruins and Days of Awe, a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. A prolific translator, she has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. She is a recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas Fellowship. Born in Havana, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Barbara Jane Reyes is a Bay Area poet, author, and educator. She is the author of Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? Notes on Pinay Liminality, Letters to a Young Brown Girl,Invocation to Daughters, To Love as Aswang, Diwata, Poeta en San Francisco, and Gravities of Center. She teaches Pinay Literature and Diasporic Filipina/o/x Literature at the University of San Francisco.

Donnelle McGee is the author of two books of fiction: Ghost Man, a novel, and Shine, a novella, as well as the poetry collection, Naked. He has published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Colere, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and The Spoon River Poetry Review.

Joseph Rios is a Xicano writer and the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations (Omnidawn, 2017), winner of a 2018 American Book Award. He is a Stegner Fellow and the current poet laureate of Fresno, California.