Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocum….

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art..

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger..

In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lo….

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all t….

What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our real….

I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see ….

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world..

There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to cr….

In real life, there are right-wingers, there are anti-immigrant activists who want to overturn this constitutional right that we have to become Ameri….

I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to ….

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph..