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.

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