Mayra Santos-Febres says in mock protest. The author's laughter, traveling through the telephone from Puerto Rico, is as colorful as her writing. Both conjure images of hot pink sunsets and cool, shaded interiors. A Cuban native who now lives in Puerto Rico, she is a master at weaving history into her fiction.
Women are the womb of humanity.
Our objective is to increase awareness among readers of an entire literary tradition in Hispanic culture. We'd like to see readers from all backgrounds plug into the Latina experience. Because there is a wonderful universality to the work of Latina authors. These gatekeepers, who make decisions about what gets published, are either not doing their homework or their views are very narrow. Diversity is here and too big, too important to ignore.