Vanessa Diaz

Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves mysteries, gothic lit, mythology/folklore, and all things witchy. Vanessa can be found on Instagram at @BuenosDiazSD or taking pictures of pretty trees in Portland, OR, where she now resides.

Literary Tourism: Hay-on-Wye, The Town Of Books

A trip to the book town of Hay-on-Wye.

Reading While Traveling: Discovering ORIGIN at its Origin

How Reading Dan Brown's Origin while in Barcelona reminded me of ways in which reading while traveling enriches the reading experience.

On Personal Trauma and Trigger Warnings

Let me have these essential and protective tools as I find the courage to tackle beautiful, terrible, soul-shaking works of art.

How Reading About Brujas Taught Me the Importance of #OwnVoices

One reader on finding herself in a book about magical Latinx teens in New York.