Alex Temblador

Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine author of the award-winning novels, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. Her third book, Writing an Identity Not Your Own, is a nonfiction writing craft book.

Alex's debut YA novel, Secrets of the Casa Rosada, has won such awards like the Middle Grade/ Young Adult Discovery Prize Winner of the 2018 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards, Kirkus' Best of YA Books of 2018, the NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Award 2019, the Texas Library Association's TAYSHA's Nomination, and received a Starred Kirkus Review. Half Outlaw, an adult fiction novel, received a Bronze Medal for the Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book in the 2023 International Latino Book Awards.

Her creative writing has appeared in anthologies like Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, as well as literary journals like Colorado Review, PALABRITAS, D Magazine, Cigale Literary Magazine, and Scissortale Review. Alex received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Alex is the founder and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books, a quarterly panel series for DFW authors. In her career as an author, Alex has conducted a wide array of presentations for the likes of Macmillan Publishers, Abydos Learning Conference, TLA Annual Conference, Texas Teen Book Festival, and universities like Southern Methodist University, University of Houston, University of Louisiana at Monroe, LaGaurdia CC, etc.

When she's not working on her next novel, Alex is a full-time freelance travel, arts, culture, and design writer and teaches the occasional seminar on creative writing.

Alex is Texas-based woman who loves literary fiction with a multicultural or diversity aspect and prefers to write about family dynamics, race, ethnicity, and identity, especially in the style of magical realism.

You can find more information about her work at AlexTemblador.com