Santa Muerte by Cynthia Pelayo6/10/2023 I remember this book my dad bought me at Aldi, a Little Golden Book, and I remember how hard he tried to read it to me. My mother would then recite fairy tales to me in Spanish, “Caperucita Roja”- “Little Red Riding Hood”-and so on. My parents didn’t really speak or read English. I was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago, in Hermosa, which is right west of Logan Square in the city. LJ’s Horror Review columnist, Becky Spratford, talks with her about writing and writers.Ĭan you share a little bit about your journey from Puerto Rico to Chicago to today? Cina was raised in inner city Chicago, where she still lives. Her upcoming novels include The Shoemaker’s Magician (Polis, 2023) and Funeral at Clark Street Bridge (Thomas & Mercer, 2024). Her modern-day horror retelling of the Pied Piper fairy tale, Children of Chicago, was released by Agora/Polis Books and won an International Latino Book Award for Best Mystery (2021). Her recent collection of poetry, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, explores the epidemic of missing and murdered women in the United States and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and an Elgin Award. She is the author of Lotería, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night. Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award–winning and three-time Bram Stoker Awards–nominated poet and author.
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