About
Aimée Medina Carr is a native daughter of southern Colorado. She lives with her husband and family in northern California's Sierra Nevada Mountains high country.
She worked as a filmmaker in the Sacramento region for ten years. Her debut novel, River of Love, received an Honorable Mention for the Landmark Prize for Fiction Award given by Homebound Publications in 2018. She won two awards in 2020 with the International Latino Book Awards – The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award and Best eBook award. She's a lifetime member of The International Society of Latino Authors, an association of authors and publishers that promotes the advancement of a multicultural world. She is a selected author of Las Comadres Latino Book Club. Aimée is Prose and Non-Fiction Editor for the forthcoming Colorado Alliance of Latino Authors – Ramas y Raices: The Best of CALMA Anthology – to be released this year. Coyota Kingdom appears in Somos Xicanas Anthology, published in Spring 2024. Excerpts from Linked and Wisdom Keepers can be found in Wayfarer Magazine.
Aimée has completed Wisdom Keepers, a non-fiction book of essays; Linked: Roots of Angels & Ancestors, a collection of short stories; and Tahoe: Big Water, a book of poems.
Featured Work
River of Love
River of Love is a supernatural Love story about a fierce Chicana American girl growing up in a white Colorado town during a youth-led cultural revolution of the 1970s. It’s a Love letter to the Southern Rocky Mountains, to the Spirits, to a close-knit family, and even to youth itself. The Arkansas River is a vital character, as is the environment and wisdom of the ancestors.
