Ernesto Mestre-Reed

About the Author

Ernesto is a MacDowell Fellow and a Guggenheim Fiction Fellow. He also teaches writing at Brooklyn College. He’s translated many novels from Spanish, including the novel “Malinche” by Laura Esquivel. Ernesto was drawn to the movement of people infecting themselves with HIV to some degree because he’d wanted to write about queer desire, and he wanted to write one final novel about Cuba. However it was the idea of queer desire and how exactly it’s connected to this ideal of liberty which is never quite achieved. He played around with this for such a long time in creating “Sacrifico”. In some ways it is a novel about broken ideals, both in a social sense, with revolution, however also in the personal sense, with the characters. There was a Cuban artist that had this exhibit at the Brooklyn Mu. Ernesto Mestre-Reed is the author of over 3 books across 1 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of Standalone Novels series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Ernesto Mestre-Reed has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.