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With the cash prize that came with winning the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Multicultural Fiction, I made a donation to United We Dream to support the fight for DACA dreamers who [...]

Just received this news! Luz is listed as one of eight books to read this weekend! Happy Fourth! 📚 💥 🇺🇸 Check out the list: 8 BOOKS TO READ ON 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND by She Reads 0 JULY 3, 2020 Many [...]

“Authors Answer” asks five random questions because “sometimes it’s fun to ask authors to talk about their life beyond the book they’ve just written.” Here’s my five answers. [...]

It was just two weeks ago that my novel, Luz, was officially released, arriving at the door of those who had pre-ordered. Since then, I’ve been overwhelmed with many positive responses to my [...]

Writer Eileen Sanchez, author of Freedom Lessons, interviewed me about Luz. Here’s the link now available on YouTube. (Sweet Eileen hesitates as she says my name in the beginning because she [...]

Join me on Wednesday June 17th for a Facebook chat 11-2pm PT and chance for a giveaway: signed copy of Luz, bookmark, and one of my hand painted mandala stones. Eileen Harrison Sanchez, author of [...]

To Vroman’s Bookstore, my beloved mentors Gayle Brandeis and Alma Luz Villanueva, and everyone who joined me last night for the virtual book-launch celebration of LUZ, thank you all from the [...]

Back in early March of this year, I began working on an essay about writing across difference in the era of the American Dirt controversy and Covid-19. On pub day, I got the news that Women [...]

13. Luz by Debra Thomas Everything changed for Alma Cruz in 2000 when she decided to chase after her missing father, who disappeared three years before after leaving Oaxaca to work on the farms [...]

Friday, June 12 @ 6PM (PT), 9 PM Eastern.                   Luz Virtual Book Launch sponsored by Vroman’s Bookstore. I will be interviewed by my friend and mentor Gayle Brandeis, winner of [...]