Hello! I'm Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a Texas-based New Mexican writer. More specifically, I'm a bestselling novelist and award-winning essayist three decades into this career. I write soul-deep stories about women (and, occasionally, men) becoming fully themselves—rising into clarity, agency, healing and love beyond the limitations once placed on them. My work spans multiple genres (women's fiction, suspense, young adult, historical fiction, romance, memoir) but is thematically consistent and intentional: every book and article is about transformation, courage, renewal, hope, and the complex, nuanced inner lives of Latinas and other people the dominant society seeks to marginalize through simplistic stereotyping.