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Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh who seeks to illuminate love and loss while unpacking what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá.

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Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer and educator based in Edinburgh. He is the author of two poetry collections (At Least This I Know, 2022 and Holy Boys, 2023) and two novels (How We Named the Stars, 2024 and What the Light Would Say, 2027).

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Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. He is the author of two poetry collections (At Least This I Know, 2022 and Holy Boys, 2023) and two novels (How We Named the Stars, 2024 and What the Light Would Say, 2027). He has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize, Morley Lit Prize, Mo Siewcharran Prize, Jhalak Poetry Prize and Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists. The following year he was named by The Skinny as one of 12 of Scotland’s Next Generation of Writers.

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