In my work, I prefer to locate my sensibilities as contextual, something related to culture, time, and place rather than identity. I am interested in how ideas get corrupted, how certain figures corrode with time.
'Writing this book was hard. Some stories made me cry even before I began writing them simply because of the research I had to do.'
Uruguayan-Australian writer Natalia Figueroa Barroso talks with Puentes Review about family, writing in Spanglish and why she won't be happy until there is more Afro-Latinx and Indigenous Latinx representation on the screen.