KRYSTAL ANALI VAZQUEZ is a writer and an attorney from Los Angeles living in Brooklyn. Her work navigates the roads in the México lindo of her family's past and present with those above the border. She holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown, and Columbia Law School. At Georgetown, she was a fellow in the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. As part of her legal practice, she is a member of her firm's team that defends the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Lady without Land is her first novel.

"Vazquez's debut is exceptional. With mindblowing creativity, Lady Without Land's original construct of following a young, Mexican woman's life via literature and cocktail recipes is a powerful cultural education that is at times heartbreaking, poetic, funny, and at all times, of the highest literary value. A perfect blend of engaging plot and prose, Vazquez is sure to make a huge name in literature--and thank the Gods of Bartenders for such intoxicating new blood!"
--Shannon Kirk, international bestselling author of Method 15/33 and recipient of Literary Classics Seal of Approval for The Extraordinary Journey of Vivienne Marshall--Shannon Kirk (3/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"By turns witty, tragic, and wholly subversive, Krystal Anali Vazquez's Lady without Land tracks a young Latina woman through a labyrinth of familial crises and relationship blunders, via the lens of putative book reviews and cocktail recipes. From LA to DC to, finally, New York, readers encounter this narrator's growth as she navigates the socioeconomic ladder, routing herself through government bureaucracies and academic institutions, and with them, a host of (often preventable) wreckage. Through it all, Vazquez exudes a penchant for humor and satire, marking this intelligent tome as, quite simply, a compulsively readable and wildly entertaining debut."
--John James, author of The Milk Hours--John James (3/22/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"Krystal Anali Vazquez is a mixologist; she brings together coming-of-age stories, authentic Latinx characters, and tasty drink recipes that intrigue and inspire you. Her novel transports you to Los Angeles, New York City, and rural parts of Mexico through vignettes as well as meditations on books from the Western literary canon. The book spans the protagonist's formidable years as she explores her womanhood. From her relationships with her mother and father and their adolescence, to her moments with her own siblings, and her different relationships with men and women, the protagonist bears it all to you and brings you into her mundo, a world that so many can relate to and learn from."
--Celeste Guzmán Mendoza, author of Beneath the Halo and co-founder of CantoMundo--Celeste Guzmán Mendoza (5/15/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"Shaking up the conventions of the novel like the torrid cocktails that populate these unusual pages, Vazquez presents a debut that intoxicates and dumbfounds."
--Booklist-- "Booklist" (11/7/2024 12:00:00 AM)