Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back had a stellar Kickstarter launch. If you missed it, now’s the time to preorder your copies of a book that bends genre, not to mention spacetime. You’ll find all three cover variants of the book (Karen S. Darboe, Armando Ramirez, BlusterOne, minus the Kickstarter exclusive digital variants), and…
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Cover Reveal… Watch out for Black Holes
My upcoming book cover is going to be revealed this week via a group that invited me to speak soon with their constituents. From the woman (and press) that warns you about wormholes, comes its cousin: WATCH OUT FOR BLACK HOLES. Literally watch out for black holes and tag me on social media @ TheNinaGalaxy…
Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism: New Chapbook
The 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” is now available in chapbook and ebook form. The chapbook that takes you down a wormhole (or two) in handmade, saddle-stitched form. And ebook. And anthology t-shirt bundles. Oh my! Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico…
Coming 2024: “It Ain’t This But That”
Nova Odyssey returns in 2024 in comics format… I and cousin Aaron Guzman have a graphic prose story in the upcoming anthology : From Cocinas To Lucha Libre Ringsides: Latinographix Stories of Sports’ Food & Madness publishing in 2024 with Ohio State University Press. Alongside some amazing comics people, Aaron and I have the story…
Crowdfunding Panel KCU
Listen to a recording of the panel I was on in June 2023 with some Kids Comics Unite community members talking about the variety of our crowdfunding experiences and tips for your literary publications.
Loisaida Festival 2023
Stephanie will be vending at the 2023 Loisaida Festival Sunday May 28th 2023, 12pm-5pm, hawking her literary goods. This is a great chance to see the plethora of the mediums I work in, that have deep roots in Puerto Rican-Nuyorican culture. Zines that disrupt Latinx brand loyalty, zines that tease, zines that mourn. Anthologies like…
Wormholes in Iowa: Teaching at Cornell College
My trip to Cornell College was a three day delight. Graciously hosted every step of the way and greeted by some sharp students eager to create “wormholes” in their graphic storytelling narratives. In workshop over two days we walked through my shared works like “Andromeda” and DR163 and broke down their layers (emphasizing the important role history…
Covid Chronicles in: Drawing us Together, Exhibit at Harvard
COVID Chronicles is included in this interactive exhibition: Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Runs 9/19 2022-Dec 17th 2022, opening reception ONLINE for a discussion which you can join 9/22 4pm on Zoom. My stories with Aaron Guzman and Seth Martel…
“Jean” Wins 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize
Honored to receive this news. I’m the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize winner for “Jean”. Read the heartwarming press release here. You can find “Jean” in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Mad Creek Books, 2021) at your local indie, library, Bookshop, online retailer, or book store. Many thanks to the Chautauqua Institution, Director Sony…
NYPL Recommends Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology
More cheers for COVID Chronicles, making New York Public Library’s “50 New Must-Read Comics. My stories in this with Seth Martel and Aaron Guzman are “Small Acts” and “Seasons of the City”. Multiple copies are available throughout the NYPL library system.
