NADXIELI NIETO (she/they) is an editor of literary and upmarket fiction, select nonfiction, and art books, including NYT bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick LA Weather; 2022 Lambda Literary Award finalist My Government Means to Kill Me, Shirley Jackson Award finalists Tiny Nightmares and Tiny Crimes, BCN award-winning Carteles Contra Una Guerra, and others. Her authors have included Kaitlyn Greenidge, Manuel Gonzales, Rasheed Newson, María Amparo Escandón, John Manuel Arias, Jessica Hoppe, Monica Brashears, Jean Grae, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Erica Berry, Ben Austen, Danté Stewart, Marielena Hincapie, and others. Her anthologies, co-edited with Lincoln Michel, have featured work by Carmen Maria Machado, Yuri Herrera, Charles Yu, and Lilliam Rivera, and her collaborative artist books may be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She is the former director of PEN America's Literary Awards, and is on the advisory board of Latinx in Publishing.
Recent and Upcoming Books
HOUSE OF COTTON by Monica Brashears
(April 4, 2023)
"Magnetic, singular and completely unforgettable." —New York Times
"A new, dazzling, and essential American voice." —George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
KING OF THE ARMADILLOS by Wendy Chin-Tanner
(July 25, 2023)
“A triumph." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan
“Engrossing, rich with emotion, and loaded with unforgettable characters” —Alex Segura, author of Secret Identity
WHERE THERE WAS FIRE by John Manuel Arias
(September 19, 2023)
“An astonishing debut novel, written in prose so atmospheric and poetic that I gasped too many times to count. Where There Was Fire quite literally took my breath away." —Kali Fajardo-Anstine, ABA winner and bestselling author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina
"An arresting tale of love, regret, and redemption.” —Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Four Treasures of the Sky
HOUSE OF COTTON by Monica Brashears
(April 4, 2023)
"Magnetic, singular and completely unforgettable." —New York Times
"A new, dazzling, and essential American voice." —George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
KING OF THE ARMADILLOS by Wendy Chin-Tanner
(July 25, 2023)
“A triumph." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan
“Engrossing, rich with emotion, and loaded with unforgettable characters” —Alex Segura, author of Secret Identity
WHERE THERE WAS FIRE by John Manuel Arias
(September 19, 2023)
“An astonishing debut novel, written in prose so atmospheric and poetic that I gasped too many times to count. Where There Was Fire quite literally took my breath away." —Kali Fajardo-Anstine, ABA winner and bestselling author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina
"An arresting tale of love, regret, and redemption.” —Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Four Treasures of the Sky
CORRECTION by Ben Austen
(November 7, 2023)
“A marvel of meticulous reporting. Ben Austen has crafted an unsparing, vivid and deeply human portrait.”—Jelani Cobb, Pulitzer-prize nominated journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School
“One of the best books I have read in a long time.” —Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy
LA WEATHER by María Amparo Escandón
REESE BOOKCLUB PICK, NYT BESTSELLER
“There’s a 100% chance you’ll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down!”—Reese Witherspoon
"A lively and ambitious family novel."—New York Times Book Review
LA WEATHER by María Amparo Escandón
REESE BOOKCLUB PICK, NYT BESTSELLER
“Enchanting.” —Oprah Quarterly
“This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by Rasheed Newson
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR GAY FICTION FINALIST
“Extraordinary” —The New York Times Book Review
"This book is a truly unique queer coming-of-age novel." —Buzzfeed
WOLFISH by Erica Berry
"Exhilarating." —The Washington Post
“Berry’s braided approach renders Wolfish both a vulnerable self-investigation and a wide-ranging exploration of fear—and, ultimately, an antidote to it. She makes a stirring case for walking alongside the symbolic wolf.” —The Atlantic
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