Ernesto
Mestre-Reed
Ernesto Mestre is an award-winning novelist, editor, writing coach, and translator. He has taught at several prestigious MFA writing programs over the last two decades, and his work has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His novels, The Lazarus Rumba, The Second Death of Única Aveyano, and Sacrificio, have received critical acclaim from the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, The Baltimore Sun, and Kirkus. A fourth novel, Liliana Bell and the American Fable, will be out from Soho Press in 2026. He has edited many books for various New York publishing houses.
Ernesto Mestre is an award-winning novelist, editor, writing coach, and translator. He has taught at several prestigious MFA writing programs over the last two decades, and his work has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His novels, The Lazarus Rumba, The Second Death of Única Aveyano, and Sacrificio, have received critical acclaim from the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, The Baltimore Sun, and Kirkus. A fourth novel, Liliana Bell and the American Fable, will be out from Soho Press in 2026. He has edited many books for various New York publishing houses.
