Our guest this week is , Sara Daniele Rivera! She is a Cuban Peruvian American artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her writing has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Solstice, Waxwing, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a 2017 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award, the winner of the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry (Solstice Magazine), and a 2022 Tin House resident. She is a co-translator of The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) and co-editor of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), won the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

JESUS TREJO BOOK CLUB Podcast

Hi, I’m Jesus Trejo! Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, TV host, Foodie, and award-winning children's book author. Welcome to JTBC, the book club for fellow book lovers! If you're passionate about stories, creativity, and all things literary, you’re in the right place. Here on JTBC, we’ll dive deep into the world of books, talking with authors, illustrators, editors, art directors, and more. Plus, we’ll feature in-depth book reviews to keep your reading list fresh. Let’s explore the world of books together!

JESUS TREJO
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Erika Lynne Jones is the illustrator of The Loud Librarian published by Simon and Schuster (2023), Black Girls: A Celebration of You published by HarperCollins (2023) and The Feelings Deck for Kids published by Bala Kids (March 2024). Her author/illustrator debut, Zara In the Middle will be published by HarperCollins in July 2025. Erika loves using cut paper collages to tell inclusive stories that affirm children and bring them joy. Her vibrant work has been featured on Good Morning Texas, Texas Today, DFW Child Magazine, The Washington Post and Mrs. Laura Bush’s 2023 Summer Reading List for Kids. For the latest info about Erika's projects, please join her free community for parents, teachers and librarians, Joyful Noise, via her website erikalynnejones.com.

JESUS TREJO BOOK CLUB - Podcast

Hi, I’m Jesus Trejo! Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, TV host, Foodie, and award-winning children's book author. Welcome to JTBC, the book club for fellow book lovers! If you're passionate about stories, creativity, and all things literary, you’re in the right place. Here on JTBC, we’ll dive deep into the world of books, talking with authors, illustrators, editors, art directors, and more. Plus, we’ll feature in-depth book reviews to keep your reading list fresh. Let’s explore the world of books together!

JESUS TREJO

📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/jesustrejo1/
🎥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheJesusTrejo
🐦 Twitter: www.twitter.com/JesusTrejo
📱 TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/J8X7hB3/
🌍 My website: www.jesustrejo.com

Hello! this is episode 7 and we have a very special guest, someone I've come up with in the stand up comedy scene, who's out here doing some amamzing work! Dulcé Sloan is an Emmy Award winning, 2 time NAACP Image Award winner and one of the sharpest voices in comedy. Bust magazine calls her “comedy gold,” while Indiewire describes her as “a fresh and unique voice in the world of stand-up comedy.” She was included in Variety’s prestigious Top Ten Comedians to Watch list, and Slink magazine crowned her “The New Queen of Comedy.” Rolling Stone hailed her as one of the Ten Comedians You Need to Know.

JESUS TREJO BOOK CLUB - Podcast Hi, I’m Jesus Trejo! Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, TV host, Foodie, and award-winning children's book author. Welcome to JTBC, the book club for fellow book lovers! If you're passionate about stories, creativity, and all things literary, you’re in the right place.

Here on JTBC, we’ll dive deep into the world of books, talking with authors, illustrators, editors, art directors, and more. Plus, we’ll feature in-depth book reviews to keep your reading list fresh. Let’s explore the world of books together!

JESUS TREJO
📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/jesustrejo1/
🎥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheJesusTrejo
🐦 Twitter: www.twitter.com/JesusTrejo
📱 TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/J8X7hB3/
🌍 My website: www.jesustrejo.com