CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN - COMING OF AGE ROMANCES

CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN – COMING OF AGE ROMANCES

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
| Location of Session: Copper Kitchen
Young Adult (YA) Sessions

Start of Signing: 5:15 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Cas Torres is an excellent planner, perfectionist, and wants to give everyone their happily-ever-after in The Quince Project. In Futbolista, Gabriel Piña is a college goalkeeper, a future professional Liga MX or MLS star, and … maybe bisexual. Both of these romantic, coming-of-age books by young adult author Jessica Parra and new adult author Jonny Garza Villa ask: What does it mean to embrace imperfections? Who are we allowed to be? And who can we become?

About the Author

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Author

Jonny Garza Villa

Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, born and raised near and along the Gulf Coast; they are a Sagittarius sun, Capricorn everything else; an avid Dungeons & Dragons player; and they are an award-winning author of contemporary young adult and new adult novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, Ander & Santi Were Here, Canto Contigo, the forthcoming anthology This is How We Roll, and their debut new adult romance Futbolista.

Photo Credit: Nola Fontanez Photography

Jessica Parra

Jessica Parra is a Los Angeles native who loves to write about Latinas with big hair (and chasing even bigger dreams), complicated families, and the healing magic of acceptance. She is a lawyer, the author of Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success, and a daughter of Guatemalan and Cuban bakers. When she isn’t drafting books you can find her sipping kombucha, cuddling with her kitties, or co-piloting the Millennium Falcon at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge. Her new novel is The Quince Project.

Moderator

Esperanza Flores Garza

Esperanza Flores Garza is a tejana, mestiza, latina lover of literature and learning. She believes that public schools and libraries are dual pillars in our democratic society and is proud to work at their intersection in the Irving Dual Language Academy Library in San Antonio’s historic westside. Her passion of promoting language and cultural expression to empower her community in and out of the classroom manifests in her work with the Young Pegasus Poetry Contest and the San Antonio Book Festival. She lives with her three children and enjoys reading, dancing, and making music every chance she gets.