Natalie Guerrero is an LA-based Afro-Latina author and producer of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent who explores womanhood, ambition, power imbalance, and late coming-of-age in her work. In July, she published her debut novel My Train Leaves at Three, which follows Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights whose entire life falls apart after her sister Nena’s sudden and tragic death.