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Hinterlands

By Matthew Byrne

The Secret Spies Keeping Baghdad Safe

By Lindsey Hilsum

Charting the Land of Great Loneliness

By Carin Clevidence

Estranged Modernisms

By Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Aya de Leon

Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning Justice Hustlers feminist heist series, including Side Chick Nation, the first novel published about Hurricane Maria. In 2021, Kensington will publish her first spy novel, about FBI infiltration of an African American eco-racial justice organization. Aya's work has also appeared in Ebony, Bitch Magazine, VICE, The Root, Catapult, and Ploughshares. Aya is at work on a black/Latina spy girl series for teens called Going Dark. Visit her on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, where she writes about race, class, gender, culture, and climate action.
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What About Your Grandmother, Jeanine?

By Aya de Leon February 12, 2020
The author of American Dirt has begun to claim her Puerto Rican heritage. But when the island needed her, she was busy writing an exploitative tale about Mexico.
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Fifty Shades of Political Torture

By Aya de Leon June 11, 2015

Boundaries of Taste: Often derided as tasteless schlock, could the Fifty Shades novels actually reflect something much more serious?

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