Alejandra Martinez
Alejandra is an Australian-Uruguayan writer. Her debut novel, Salsa in the Suburbs, was published in May 2025.
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Alejandra Martinez
Alejandra is an Australian-Uruguayan writer. Her stories have been published in a range of anthologies and magazines, including Best Australian Stories, Girls Talk and Puentes Review.
Her writing explores migration, diversity and universal themes of identity, loss, ageing, mental health, and resilience. She was the winner of the 2022 Newcastle Writers Festival Fresh Ink Emerging Writer Prize. Her debut novel, Salsa in the Suburbs, was published in 2025 and was the first Australian mainstream novel by an Australian-Uruguayan author.
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From the Margins to the Mainstream
DATE March 29 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
