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Aaron H. Aceves (he/him) is a bisexual, Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Passages North, Epiphany, and The Iowa Review, among other places. He taught creative writing at UT Austin, and his debut novel, This Is Why They Hate Us, was released by Simon & Schuster. It received multiple starred reviews and was named a Best Young Adult Book of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. He is the winner of Lambda Literary’s 2025 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writer.

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Aaron H. Aceves Reading a lot. Living my life and not thinking about writing. Watching TV. Re-reading my own writing that it is finished.
Aaron H. Aceves I'm working on two books right now. The first is a YA novel about three kids who work on their school paper. The second is a novel for adults about a …moreI'm working on two books right now. The first is a YA novel about three kids who work on their school paper. The second is a novel for adults about a man who can see the future and gets on a plane that he knows is going to crash.(less)
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"TW: alcohol, car accident, chronic illness, death, death of a loved one, grief, medical content, mental illness, racism, sexual assault.

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I was really invested in the first half, but I was severely let down by the way it backpedaled. It's almost as if the author wrote an" Read more of this review »
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"What an underwhelming follow-up/prequel to Pet (which I mostly loved!) Bitter is a coming-of-age story that features Jam's parents amidst the backdrop of Lucille's revolutionary period. While this sounded promising, Emezi abandoned the detailed yet s" Read more of this review »
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“Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive because they like the same sex?”
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

“Our minds are truly the one place where no one else can follow us. Even if we try, if we constantly express every thought that comes to mind, if we exist as a walking stream of consciousness, we won’t be able to convey everything that’s going on. There are emotions and feelings and sensations that we’d never be able to articulate.”
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

“People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences” or whatever. But the anxiety leading up to spending time with them and the emotional drain afterward make them not worth it.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive because they like the same sex?”
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

“People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences” or whatever. But the anxiety leading up to spending time with them and the emotional drain afterward make them not worth it.”
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

“Our minds are truly the one place where no one else can follow us. Even if we try, if we constantly express every thought that comes to mind, if we exist as a walking stream of consciousness, we won’t be able to convey everything that’s going on. There are emotions and feelings and sensations that we’d never be able to articulate.”
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

“Some parents pin all their hopes and dreams on their children, and as a result, those kids feel all kinds of pressure to be some sort of familial savior destined to achieve greatness and keep their extended family from drowning.”
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