Latine Monsters
Art by Danya Hernandez
A Letter from the Editor, by Ofelia Montelongo
Hero and I Am La Llorona in the Exam Room at the Breast Cancer Center by Felicia Zamora
A Girl Experiments with Being Human, by Ruth Joffre
The Storyteller, by Edie Ayala
Your Family Has a Secret, by Manuel Aragon
Un Yeti en Icacos, by Laura Andrea
El Primo, by SG Huerta
What He Told Them, by C. Adán Cabrera
There are No Tender Spaces on the Border, by Maria-Luisa Ornelas-June
Paper Trail, by Lesley Téllez
Four Poems: we were never born, Latinas are fiery, spicy hot, [in my beaded saguaro earrings], This Is the Place Where Spirits Get Eaten, by Angelica Esquivel
Ripples, by Beatriz Brenes Mora
The Last Offering, by Jaime Alejandro Cruz
Cherry Ice Cream Girl, by Laura Vidarte
The Tooth Fairy, by Andrea Gomez
What do we do when the last abuser has died during the pandemic, by Noemi Altagracia Martinez-Turull
Full Moon on the Border, by Alex J. Barrio
A notebook excerpt I will not read to you, by Lauren Holguin
Creyentes - Believers, by Maria Fernanda Ampuero
Jeremy, by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Siguanaba Taxonomy, by Leticia Hernández-Linares
A conversation with Daniel A. Olivas about monsters, bigots, and Chicano Frankenstein, by Megan Figueroa
Monstrito, by Ofelia Montelongo
Danya Hernandez is an artist currently enrolled in high school. She’s been creating art since the early age of 6, and her main medium includes working with charcoal and graphite. Her works have been featured in local art shows around Reston,VA.