Alisa Valdes

Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon No. 1 bestselling author of a dozen novels, with more than 1 million books in print. An award-winning former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, Valdés-Rodríguez was born and raised in New Mexico, where her maternal family can trace its roots back 13 generations on the Spanish side and tens of thousands of years on the indigenous. She's the founder of the indie publishing house, Tomé Hill Press.