May 8, 2019
Lilliam
Rivera is the guest. Her new YA novel, Dealing in
Dreams, is available from Simon & Schuster.
Rivera's previous novel,The Education of Margot Sanchez (February 2017) was nominated for a 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award, a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), and has been featured on NPR, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, MTV.com, and Teen Vogue, among others.
Rivera's previous novel,The Education of Margot Sanchez (February 2017) was nominated for a 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award, a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), and has been featured on NPR, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, MTV.com, and Teen Vogue, among others.
She is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Clarion alumni
with a Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. Lilliam has also been
awarded fellowships from PEN Center USA, A Room Of Her Own
Foundation, and received a grant from the Elizabeth George
Foundation and the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her short
story "Death Defiant Bomba" received honorable mention in Bellevue
Literary Review's 2014 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, selected by
author Nathan Englander. She recently received honorable mention in
the 2018 James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award.
Lilliam's work has appeared in The New York Times,
Elle, Lenny Letter, Tin House, Los
Angeles Times, USA Today, and more. She has been a featured
speaker in countless schools and book festivals throughout the
United States and teaches creative writing workshops.
In today's monologue, I have a brief conversation with Juliet Escoria, author of the debut novel Juliet the Maniac (Melville House), the official May pick of the TNB Book Club.
In today's monologue, I have a brief conversation with Juliet Escoria, author of the debut novel Juliet the Maniac (Melville House), the official May pick of the TNB Book Club.