Today, we're setting up Victoria Leandra, an award winning journalist who covers food, identity, travel and music for places like HuffPost, VICE, and more. She’s also a content creator and podcaster, well known for her El ADN podcast, listed as one of Spotify’s favorite podcasts of 2022. She considers herself romantic, but likes the random kindness kind of romance, but also is a sucker for the drama of Love is Blind. She admits that she becomes very basic in the fall (apple picking, pumpkin pie, and all of that) but has no apologies for that. She wants a tattoo of Puerto Rico, and is so impressed by stories of mothers thriving. She recently read and enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing and Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and wants to read more fiction.

The winning bookstore

Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Book picks

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Lucie Yi is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho