Xochitl Gonzalez received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts fellow and the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship for fiction. She was the winner of the 2019 Disquiet Literary Prize and her work has been published in Bustle, Vogue, and The Cut. She is a contributor to The Atlantic, where her weekly newsletter Brooklyn, Everywhere explores the gentrification of people and places. Her debut Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel (Flatiron Books) is a New York Times bestseller. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, it follows Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo. Prieto is a popular congressman. Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers. But behind closed doors, things are far less rosy. Meanwhile, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical who abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, is facing hurricane season and back in their lives. Olga is a tale that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the American dream – all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.