Emily Quintanilla

Emily Quintanilla recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing. She worked as a Los Angeles Review of Books copydesk intern during spring 2024.

Articles

  • Mothers and Daughters and Sons, Oh My!

    Mother’s Day inspires Emily Quintanilla to revisit Azarin Sadegh’s review of “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence,” a book of reflective essays edited by Michele Filgate.

    • Voices from the Borderlands

      The recent outpouring of literary works from Latin America leads Emily Quintanilla to unearth Dick Cluster’s profile of Texas’s own FlowerSong Press and its publisher, Edward Vidaurre.

      • Revisiting Girlhood

        Amid a cultural re-embrace of “girlhood,” Emily Quintanilla revisits Sadie Shorr-Parks’s review of Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut novel, “The Poet X”—which provides an alternate angle on femininity, identity, and adolescence.