Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
2 SeriesRaquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Mexican-American author of YA novels and a poet. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Gilliland lives in Tennessee with her family.
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything is a standalone novel by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland. Three years ago, Sia's mother disappeared after an ICE raid and a perilous walk across the Sonoran Desert. Now living in a small Arizona town, Sia struggles to move on as locals downplay her mother's deportation as "an unfortunate incident." The novel follows Sia's journey as she seeks closure and confronts the challenges of her past.
