Join to Latinx voices take center stage at the Boston Book Festival—celebrating vibrant storytelling, cultural resilience, and the power of words.

12:30 pm Small Press, Big Love: Spotlight on Four Local Presses
M.P. Carver • Steven Cramer • Janaka Stucky • Enzo Silon Surin • Mark Pawlak • Dick Lourie • Pablo F. Medina • Eileen Cleary • Mass Poetry
Pablo F. Medina
Pablo Medina is the author of many books, most recently the poetry collection Sea of Broken Mirrors, the novel The Cuban Comedy, and Poet in the Neighborhood: Selected Poems of Rafael Alcides. His critically acclaimed translations include García Lorca's Poet in New York (with Mark Statman) and Alejo Carpentier's seminal novel The Kingdom of This World. Winner of several awards for his work, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, Medina splits his time between Williamsville, Vermont, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is professor emeritus from Emerson College.

13:45 pm Choose Your Own... Dystopia
Veronica Koven-Matasy • Jill Tew • Melissa Poett • Gloria Muñoz
Gloria Muñoz
Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She’s a proud alum of the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. A proponent of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Gloria has worked alongside botanists, musicians, dancers, historians, classicists, visual artists, conservationists, and neuroscientists.

14:00 pm In Conversation with Miguel Bonnefoy Benoit Landon
Miguel Bonnefoy
Miguel Bonnefoy is a French and Venezuelan novelist, whose rich storytelling delves  into a range of relevant themes from identity to family and collective memory. He was the recipient of the Prix de Jeune Écrivain in 2013. His acclaimed novel Heritage was short-listed for several prestigious literary honors, including the Grand Prix de l’Académie française, the Prix Femina, and the Prix Goncourt. His latest novel, The Dream of the Jaguar, will be released in the US in December 2025.