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San Diego author Lizz Huerta's new YA novel, "The Lost Dreamer" is out Mar. 1, 2022 from FSG for Young Readers. RELATED: Lizz Huerta's 'The Lost Dreamer' is inspired by Indigenous, Latinx culture and the power of story (KPBS feature and Midday Edition feature) About the event: In-Store Book Signing! This event will consist of a 30-minute discussion with author Lizz Huerta, a question and answer section, and lastly the book signing portion. About the Authors Lizz Huerta is a widely-admired Mexi-Rican short story writer and essayist, published in Lightspeed, The Cut, The Portland Review, The Rumpus, Miami Rail, and more. Her short story “The Wall” is included in the anthology A People’s Future of the United States. Huerta has also been a 2018 Bread Loaf Fellow, a five-time VONA Fellow, and the winner of the LUMINA fiction contest, selected by Roxane Gay, who called her writing “a menacing inescapable seduction.” She has appeared on CSPAN’s BookTV to discuss the erasure of Mexican American Studies in Arizona, and has taught creative writing to homeless youth through San Diego nonprofit So Say We All. Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. He resides in San Diego but spent a lot of time moving around as a military brat. His family roots are in the Cajun country of Louisiana. Currently, he manages the social media for the Hugo Award winning FIYAH Literary Magazine, worked as Senior Programming Coordinator for FIYAHCON and co- produced with Tor.com an anthology titled Breathe FIYAH. He has work published with FIYAH, Anathema Magazine, Cotton Xenomorph, Baffling Magazine and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He has a novella from Neon Hemlock upcoming in 2022. He can be found on Twitter @brentclambert talking about the weird and the fantastic. Ask him his favorite members of the X-Men and you’ll get different answers every time. Related links: Mysterious Galaxy on Instagram Mysterious Galaxy on Facebook Lizz Huerta on Instagram Lizz Huerta on Twitter

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