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Andrés N. Ordorica

Biography

Andrés N. Ordorica

Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx poet, writer and educator. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and his own third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the novel HOW WE NAMED THE STARS, the poetry collection AT LEAST THIS I KNOW, and currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Andrés N. Ordorica

Books by Andrés N. Ordorica

How We Named the Stars
by Andrés N. Ordorica - Fiction

When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family’s hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle’s name. Daniel flounders at first --- but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their relationship takes flight, Daniel is pulled away, first by Sam’s hesitation and then by a brutal turn of events that changes Daniel’s life forever. As he grapples with profound loss, Daniel finds himself in his family’s ancestral homeland in México for the summer, finding joy in this setting even as he struggles to come to terms with what’s happened and faces a host of new questions.