BOOKS
TOGETHER WE SEE
(FSG 2026)
This edge-of-your-seat Indigenous murder-mystery set in Costa Rica from Pura Belpré and Walter Dean Myers Award-winning author of Saints of the Household is perfect for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter and Patron Saints of Nothing.
Told in multiple points of view, Together We See follows Ulá Dominguez, a Bribri-American teenager, searching for the truth behind her land-activist father's mysterious death on their Native territory in Costa Rica. Ulá and her brother, Kabék, uncover secrets and corruption as they face off against illegal loggers, kidnappers, settlers, and the local government in the hunt for clues. Their only allies are a few family friends and relatives still living in Bribri, as well as a young journalist, who may be in danger himself. But as details of their father's death emerge, long-held trust is broken.
Inspired by real-world missing, dead, and attacked Indigenous activists, award-winning author Ari Tison writes her first novel in prose and pushes the envelope yet again by pulling together a propulsive story full of grief, environmental justice, and the fight for retribution.
Saints of the household (FSG 2023)
winner of the walter dean myers award and the pura belpré award and a finalist for the william c. Morris award is the haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer.
Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down.
But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school's star soccer player to a pulp. As the true details of that fateful afternoon unfold over the course of the novel, Max and Jay grapple with the weight of their actions, their shifting relationship as brothers, and the realization that they may be more like their father than they thought. They'll have to reach back to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, debut author Ari Tison crafts an emotional, slow-burning drama about brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing.
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Anthologies
RELIT: 16 Latinx Remixes of classics (inkyard 2024)
sixteen short stories from award-winning and bestselling authors, featuring remixes of classic with a Latinx spin.
The SFF YA anthology explores the Latinx experience through retellings of classics, myths, and fairytales, from Poe to “Sleeping Beauty.” In addition to a contribution from Proudman, the anthology will feature stories by Olivia Abtahi, David Bowles, Zoraida Córdova, Saraciea J. Fennell, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Torrey Maldonado, Jasminne Mendez, Anna Meriano, Amparo Ortiz, Laura Pohl, Sandra Proudman, NoNieqa Ramos, Monica Sanz, Eric Smith, Ari Tison, and Alexandra Villasante.
OUr Shadows Have Claws (Algonquin 2022)
Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable monsters.
The worlds of these stories are dark but also magical ones, where a ghost-witch can make your cheating boyfriend pay, bullies are brought to their knees by vicious wolf-gods, a jar of fireflies can protect you from the reality-warping magic of a bruja—and maybe you’ll even live long enough to tell the tale. Set across Latin America and its diaspora, this collection offers bold, imaginative stories of oppression, grief, sisterhood, first love, and empowerment.
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POETRY MAGAZINE (march 2021): Young peoples special edition
Poetry Foundation's first ever edition for young people. Guest edited by Margarita Engle, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Jacqueline Woodson; cover art by Colin Laureal. Featuring poets such as Nikki Grimes, Mariana Llanos, Padma Venkatraman, Heid E. Erdrich, Linda Sue Park, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ari Tison, Marilyn Nelson, and others.