Julia Alvarez

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1. Julia Alvarez

   Author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, !Yo!, Homecoming: New and Collected Poems

2. Sandra Cisneros

   Author of The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories

3. Edwidge Danticat

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4. Isabel Allende

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5. Toni Morrison

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6. Barbara Kingsolver

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7. Louise Erdrich

   Author of The Master Butchers Singing Club, The Beet Queen, Tales of Burning Love: A Novel

8. Cristina Garcia

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9. Ellen Datlow

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10. Esmeralda Santiago

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11. Oscar Hijuelos

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12. Walter Dean Myers

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13. Jhumpa Lahiri

    Author of The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies

14. Junot Díaz

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15. Ana Castillo

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16. Dorothy Allison

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17. Michael Dorris

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18. Gloria Naylor

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19. Laura Esquivel

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20. Jack Zipes

    Author of Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight