Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to write
The Undocumented Americans the day after the 2016 presidential election, though her first piece on immigration was published when she was a Harvard senior (byline: Anonymous). Anonymous no more, she has since written for the
New Yorker,
The Atlantic,
The New Republic, and ELLE.com, among others, and her National Book Award-shortlisted nonfiction book came out in paperback today.
The Ecuador-born Villavicencio once wrote about music for a jazz publication and indie rock blogs (she dreamed of fronting a rock band as a kid, but didn’t have access to instruments or lessons, so she became a music writer instead), is a PhD candidate at Yale, has a Boston terrier named Frankie, was an Emerson Collective Fellow, likes birds and CBD oil, and loves singing along to breakup anthems played at top volume with tears in her eyes. “That’s what I want my YA novel,
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on Franny and Zooey, Judy Blume, and the Book That Proved Her Wrong
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New in Paperback: Deacon King Kong and The Undocumented Americans
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