Books
by Julián Esteban Torres López
• Ninety-Two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins: A Micro-Poetry Collection (The Nasiona Press, 2021).
• Reporting On Colombia: Essays on Colombia's History, Culture, Peoples, and Armed Conflict (The Nasiona Press, 2020).
• Marx's Humanism and Its Limits: Why Marx Believed We Should Achieve Socialism and Communism Nonviolently (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
Select books where Julián was Publisher and Senior Editor:
• The Roots That Help Us Grow: An Authentic Voices Anthology, Volume 1, presented by Women's National Book Association & Women of Color Writers; Foreword by Devi S. Laskar (The Nasiona Press, 2021).
• Blue Blood: Essays and Poems, by Robin Gow (The Nasiona Press, 2021).
• Vestiges of Courage: Collected Essays, by Mireya S. Vela (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
• Mixed, by Nicole Zelniker; Foreword by Julián Esteban Torres López (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
• PLACES & NAMES: Poems, by Carl Boon (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
• Eat The Eight: Preventing Food Allergy with Food and the Imperfect Art of Medicine, by Ron Sunog, MD (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
• Husband Father Failure: Poems, by KG Newman (The Nasiona Press, 2019).
Select forthcoming books where Julián is Publisher and Senior Editor:
• Reflections of an Old Man, by Fernando González; Translated by Olga González Latapi; Foreword by Julián Esteban Torres López; in partnership with with Corporación Otraparte (The Nasiona Press, Summer 2022)
• "Give Us a Smile": Collected Essays, Poems, and Interviews On Womanhood and Trauma, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam & Julián Esteban Torres López (The Nasiona Press, Summer 2022)
• Through Ace Eyes, by Allison Stalberg (The Nasiona Press, Summer 2023)
Author
Selection
Select books where Julián was Publisher and Senior Editor. Julián also interviewed the book authors and contributors for The Nasiona Podcast.
WOC Writers’ Authentic Voices Series in The Nasiona Podcast
Published:
✔ Natalie Obando, National President of Women’s National Book Association. (The Nasiona Podcast, episodes 67 + 68.)
Forthcoming episodes:
• Devi S. Laskar
• Alaa Al-Barkawi
• Amber Blaeser-Wardzala
• L. Iyengar
• Yemimah
• Cecilia Caballero
• Arao Ameny
• The Nasiona Podcast, episode 65 – Blue Blood: Challenging the Rhetoric that Trans People are ‘Unnatural’
Interviews:
• The Nasiona Podcast, episode 2 – Mireya S. Vela’s Vestiges of Courage
• The Nasiona Magazine, Issue 3 – La Loca Del Kuuchamaa: Interview with Mireya Vela
Performances:
Four essays included in Mireya’s book, Vestiges of Courage: Collected Essays.
• The Nasiona Podcast, episode 4 – Systemic Abuse of Women
The Nasiona Podcast, episode 3 – Mixed-Race Families
The Nasiona Podcast, episode 32: Imaginative Biography: PLACES & NAMES
The Nasiona Podcast, episode 6 – The Imperfect Art of Medicine
Selection
Forthcoming
Select forthcoming books where Julián is Publisher and Senior Editor
pronounced
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Julián Esteban Torres López (he/him/él) is a bilingual, Colombia-born storyteller, public scholar, and culture architect with Afro-Euro-Indigenous roots. Some of his other intersectional identities also inform his work, such as: atheist, multiply neurodivergent, formerly an undocumented immigrant, (non-visibly) disabled, chronic mental health conditions, Latine/o/x.
SERVICES
With over two decades’ experience in community development and advancing social justice on the ground and in academic, corporate, and nonprofit settings, Julián is available for consulting, public talks, keynotes, workshops, training, coaching, mentorship, and interviews.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Julián is also available to partner with others to advocate for and center, elevate, and amplify the voices, experiences, and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and dominant cultures.
