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Small press · Germany
Delise Torres
A Puerto Rican-origin writer living in Germany, writing women’s fiction and contemporary romance about belonging and culture.
Delise Torres is a Puerto Rican-origin writer currently living in Germany. She writes women’s fiction and contemporary romance about belonging, culture, love, and vulnerability. Her debut novel, One Tough Cookie, was published in 2023 and remains her only distinct listed work in her catalog.
The book was published by Alcove Press, an imprint of Crooked Lane Books, an independent publisher outside the Big Five ecosystem. Torres qualifies as an emerging author from an independent press, with her independence most clearly established at the Crooked Lane publisher level.
The standard questions
We ask every featured author the same set, so the archive is comparable.
- How did you start writing?
- Homesickness, mostly — writing about Puerto Rico from Germany turned into writing about belonging more generally.
- Which publishing path did you take, and why?