Quiara Alegría Hudes
Quiara Alegría Hudes has written for the stage, page, voice and screen. Quiara’s debut novel, The White Hot, was named a best book of 2025 by Kirkus, NPR, and Ms. Magazine. Her 2021 memoir, My Broken ... Read more
Quiara Alegría Hudes has written for the stage, page, voice and screen. Quiara’s debut novel, The White Hot, was named a best book of 2025 by Kirkus, NPR, and Ms. Magazine. Her 2021 memoir, My Broken Language, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and was One Book, One Philadelphia’s citywide read. Her plays include Water by the Spoonful, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize; In the Heights, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer finalist; and Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, another Pulitzer finalist. Hudes has also written two feature films: the animated Vivo and the screen adaptation of In the Heights. She has contributed essays for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Cut, The Nation and American Theater Magazine. With her cousin Sean, she co-founded a prison writing program: Emancipated Stories. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, she was born and raised in West Philly and now lives in New York.