Xavier Garza (Moderator), John Picacio (Illustrator-Author), Frederick Luis Aldama (Author and Editor) at the San Antonio Book Festival April 11, 2026 San Antonio has always felt like a city that holds memory in its bones. The riverwalk and historic el marcado hums with it. The food carries it. And every spring, the San Antonio Book Festival draws together the storytellers who know how to excavate that memory and put it on the page, the panel, the panel, the illustrated sprea

It’s a way to intentionally affirm the Otherness that a conformist mainstream throws at youth.