For Episode Two of Musica y Libros, Teresita again chose to dedicate her show to children. This time she read from “Bilingual Poems/Poemas bilingües”, written as a project by 5th grade students in Taos, New Mexico some years ago (the students have now graduated high school). Enjoy! Musica y Libros can be heard at knmj.simplecast.fm and also…
Author: dovalpage
I was born in Havana, Cuba and I am the author of twelve published books. My last novel, Death Comes in through the Kitchen, is a mystery set in Havana. I am currently a professor at New Mexico Junior College.
Música y Libros now at KNMJ
KNMJ 100.9 is excited to announce our newest show and podcast: Musica y Libros! Hosted by New Mexico Junior College professor Teresita Dovalpage, this bilingual show is recorded in both English and Spanish to highlight both beautiful languages. Episodio Uno is dedicated to children and features a special bilingual book, “Zoologico de poemas/Poetry Zoos” written by Puerto…
The Parent Test (a Taos News series)
I just started this new sci-fi series in The Taos News By Teresa Dovalpage For The Taos News Tandra had waited too long and now she had to pay for it. While the helicar hovered over the Institute for Parental Certification, the feared IPC, she felt her heart beat faster at the sight of those…
6 Ws with Teresa Dovalpage
In Joan Livingston’s website Teresa Dovalpage is the next author to appear in this 6Ws series. I do have a confession to make. Not only is Teresa a talented writer in English and Spanish, she is one of my dearest friends. As you can read from her answers, she is a lot of fun. Her latest…
A podcast with Kase Johnstun: Author & Banyan Collective Podcaster.
Teresita Dovalpage, writing about food and murder and what it’s like to wrap them together in Cuba, made us laugh. Teresita opened up on the LITerally Podcast about being a writer, a native Cuban, and what it’s like write a crime novel, which, to me, felt like a literary crime novel because of the beautiful…
Book review in The Taos News
By Patricia West-Barker For The Taos News When American journalist Matt Sullivan arrives in Havana in the spring of 2003, he’s carrying a second-hand wedding dress, a suitcase filled with pots, pans, cutlery and appliances, and the expectation that his Cuban girlfriend, Yarmi, whom he hasn’t seen in a year, will be there to…
A starred review in Publishers Weekly
At the start of this dazzling culinary mystery from Dovalpage (The Astral Plane), laid-back, spiritually shambolic 36-year-old San Diego, Calif., reporter Matt Sullivan arrives in Cuba just before the 2003 Black Spring crackdown on dissidents, not to investigate human rights violations but to marry (he hopes) 24-year-old food blogger Yarmila Portal, whom he mostly knows…
Permaculture: Revolution Disguised as Gardening
Brigid Meier with her dog Pluma When you enter Tierra Drala, the name Brigid Meier has given to the three and a half acres in El Prado, a property her husband, Fred Fair has owned for over 40 years and where she has implemented permaculture principles and techniques for the past 15, you come into…
From Library Journal: Death Comes in through the Kitchen
From Library Journal by BARBARA HOFFERT Dovalpage, Teresa. Death Comes in Through the Kitchen. Soho Crime. Mar. 2018. 368 p. ISBN 9781616958848. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616958855. MYSTERY Winner of Spain’s Rincón de la Victoria Award and the author of both fiction and plays, Cuban-born, New Mexico–based Dovalpage offers a literary mystery set in 2003 Havana. It opens with…
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
So proud to be part of this collection, in the company of so many authors I admire! The Usual Santas Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs,…
