María Mínguez Arias
María Mínguez Arias is a fiction and non-fiction writer, translator, journalist and accidental editor. She is the author of forthcoming hybrid memoir and essay collection Naming the Body: A Queer Woman’s Restorative Mapping of the Self (Mouthfeel Press, 2026), translated from Spanish by National Book Award Winner in Translated Literature, Robin Myers. The original Spanish Edition Nombrar el cuerpo (2022) was named among the Best Queer Lit of 2022 in Spain and made Vanity Fair Spain’s Pride Recommended List of 2025. Mínguez Arias is also the author of the Int’l Latino Book Award winning novel Patricia sigue aquí (2018), and co-editor of the anthology #NiLocasNiSolas: narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos (2023). Her essays, short stories and reviews appear in anthologies and journals in the US, Spain, and Mexico. She delves into her identity as an immigrant, queer woman, mother, and Spanish-language writer in the US to explore subjects such as memory (digital, familial, and historical), motherhood, language, the body, and everyday life and strength as experienced on the margins. She is part of the Executive Team at feminist press Aunt Lute Books in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her partner and their two young adult children.
