STORIES WE INHERIT. LIVES WE CHOOSE.
Sánchez Peguero Press is an independent literary press devoted to stories rooted in culture, memory, identity, love, family, and the complicated experience of belonging between worlds.
Founded by Dominican-American writer Massiel Desireé, the press currently publishes her poetry, essays, and fiction while growing toward a home for bold, beautifully crafted work by Latinx, Caribbean, immigrant, diasporic, bilingual, and other historically underrepresented writers.
Our first title, Luna & Cielo: The Same Fire, Different Faces, is a bilingual poetry collection tracing blood memory, desire, heartbreak, survival, and transformation—and the ways women inherit and rewrite the emotional histories of the generations before them.
Sánchez Peguero Press believes that the stories preserved in kitchens, photographs, letters, family legends, half-remembered conversations, and inherited silences belong in the literary record. We publish work that looks closely at what has been handed down, questions what we have been taught to accept, and imagines what might become possible when we tell our stories for ourselves.
A PRESS BUILT FROM LINEAGE
Sánchez Peguero Press takes its name from the Sánchez and Peguero women whose lives, histories, resilience, and storytelling traditions form part of Massiel Desireé’s creative inheritance.
The name is both an offering and an act of preservation. It honors the women whose stories were not always formally recorded but survived through memory: in recipes prepared without measurements, photographs kept in drawers, warnings repeated across generations, family histories carried orally, and the silences that taught their own complicated lessons.
That inheritance shapes the press’s understanding of literature. We believe archives are not found only in libraries and official records. They also live in bodies, households, rituals, language, rumor, longing, and the stories families tell about themselves. Sánchez Peguero Press exists to gather those fragments, examine them with care, and help move them from private memory into lasting art.
WHAT WE PUBLISH NOW
Sánchez Peguero Press currently publishes the literary work of its founder, Massiel Desireé, with an emphasis on poetry, essays, and fiction rooted in Dominican and Dominican-American experience.
Her work moves between English and Spanish and explores ancestral memory, Dominican history and culture, motherhood, sensuality, romantic love, grief, autonomy, family loyalty, identity, reinvention, and the often messy work of becoming fully oneself.
Across genres, the press is drawn to writing that asks difficult questions of inheritance: What do we keep? What do we challenge? What do we refuse to hand down? And how do we make art from the histories that shaped us before we had the language to understand them?
WHAT WE ARE GROWING TOWARD
As Sánchez Peguero Press grows, our vision is to become a home for bold, beautifully crafted work by Latinx, Caribbean, immigrant, diasporic, bilingual, and other historically underrepresented writers.
We are especially interested in stories that preserve cultural memory, challenge inherited narratives, celebrate complicated identities, and give language to experiences too often left at the margins. We envision publishing work that crosses borders—between languages, countries, genres, generations, and conventional ideas about where a person or story belongs.
The press is not currently accepting outside submissions. Future opportunities, submission periods, and publishing announcements will be shared through our website and official channels as the press develops.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Massiel Desireé is a Dominican-American writer, poet, essayist, and publisher whose work explores the stories we inherit, the selves we construct, and what happens when women begin questioning the lives they were taught to accept.
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised across Santo Domingo, Washington Heights, and northern New Jersey, she writes from the complicated geography of diaspora—between countries, languages, generations, identities, and versions of home. She founded Sánchez Peguero Press to create an intentional home for work concerned with lineage, cultural history, memory, identity, and the voices that have too often existed outside the official record.
