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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Eddie Vega

Eddie Vega

  • March 6, 2026
**Eddie Vega is appearing in our Opening Ceremony.** Eddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet, storyteller, and educator. He is the author of Chicharra Chorus and Somos Nopales. His poetry […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson

Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson

  • March 3, 2026
Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a poet, singer, and hip-hop artist. A San Antonio native, she is the author of the collection She Lives in Music. Sanderson was a slam poet […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Amanda Johnston

Amanda Johnston

  • March 3, 2026
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, the 61st Texas Poet Laureate, and founder of Torch Literary Arts. She is the editor of Praisesong for the People: Poems from the […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Barbara Ras

Barbara Ras

  • March 3, 2026
Barbara Ras is the author of four poetry collections: The Blues of Heaven; The Last Skin, which was named the Best Book of 2010 by the Texas Institute of Letters; […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez

  • March 3, 2026
Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, four collections […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Octavio Quintanilla

Octavio Quintanilla

  • March 3, 2026
Octavio Quintanilla was the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing; The Book of Wounded Sparrows, which was Longlisted for the […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye

  • March 3, 2026
Naomi Shihab Nye of San Antonio has been writing poems since she was six. She believes all people have a “poetry channel” inside, whether they turn it on a lot […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts

  • March 3, 2026
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and the Founder & CEO of Freedom Reads, an initiative to radically transform access to literature in prisons. Dwayne transformed his 2019 collection […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Natalia Treviño

Natalia Treviño

  • March 3, 2026
Natalia Treviño has won several awards for her poetry and fiction, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Literary Award […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Xelena González

Xelena González

  • March 3, 2026
Xelena González practices the healing arts through writing and movement. She is a storyteller, dancer, and visiting author who centers self-love in her multidisciplinary workshops for all ages. Her award-winning […]
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Read MoreSan Antonio Book Festival - Terrell James

Terrell James

  • March 3, 2026
Terrell James is a painter and educator. She has worked for the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her work has been included in nine books, most […]
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