Coming May 10 from HarperCollins/Clarion Books
A Today Show 2022 pick
One of Buzzfeed's Highly Anticipated YA Books
A Paste Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2022
Photo by: Eric Sylvester

ABOUT
Natalia Sylvester is the award-winning author of several novels for adults and young adults. CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME won an International Latino Book Award and the 2018 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Natalia's debut YA novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection, and her next novel for young adults, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, is forthcoming in May 2022 from Clarion Books/HarperCollins. A MALETA FULL OF TREASURES, Natalia's first picture book (illustrated by Juana Medina), will be published by Dial Books in 2024.
Natalia's non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Electric Literature, Latina magazine, and McSweeney's Publishing. Her essays have been anthologized in collections such as A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY and A MEASURE OF BELONGING: WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH.
Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia came to the US at age four and grew up in Florida and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. She received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami, was a 2021 Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was formerly a faculty member at the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University.
In EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME...
"Sylvester memorably depicts the precarious existence and difficult choices that face undocumented immigrants to America."
EVENTS
All events are online.
WED. AUGUST 12
7 p.m. EDT
Natalia Sylvester presents RUNNING
hosted by The Astoria Bookshop
THUR. AUGUST 13
7:30 p.m. EDT
An Evening for Latinx Youth
feat. Lynda Lopez & Natalia Sylvester
hosted by Duende District & Greenlight Bookstore
FRI. AUGUST 28
6 p.m. EDT
hosted by WordUp Books' Lo'Mas Lit Book Club
in conv. w/ Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer De Leon,
and Lilliam Rivera
SUN. SEPTEMBER 13
2 p.m. EDT
Salem Literary Festival
a conversation with Brandy Colbert & Natalia Sylvester on Political Activism in YA novels
CONTACT
FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND AUTHOR VISITS:
Christie Hinrichs at Authors Unbound Agency
christie@authorsunbound.com, (541) 797-2217
View my speaking profile here.
For Book Clubs, download a discussion guide here. You can also schedule a virtual book club visit here.
FOR SPECIFIC REQUESTS ABOUT RIGHTS OR PUBLICITY:
Publicity & Media for
CHASING THE SUN and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME:
Amazon Publishing
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OR AT ME@NATALIASYLVESTER.COM