Quina Aragon
A first-generation child of immigrants. Author, Speaker, and Spoken-Word Artist.
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If Hurricanes Were Flowers is a middle grade novel-in-verse featuring poetry that spans cultures and continents.
In this short novel, Lily—a Filipina and Puerto Rican growing up in Central Florida—learns that grief isn’t a weakness to hide but a sacred mystery ready to bloom when nurtured by a safe, loving community (bayanihan).
Through fantasy and suspense woven together with a thread of faith, readers are invited to explore themes of identity, migration, and belonging.
Hope Blooms in This Lyrical Novel About the Power of Community
If Hurricanes Were Flowers makes reading more accessible through shorter, engaging text, while offering an interactive poetry guide appendix that turns readers into writers. Get your copy today!
Experience poetry that spans cultures and continents
With If Hurricanes Were Flowers, readers will see that even the fiercest storms can nurture the deepest roots.
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Author, Speaker, and Spoken-Word Artist
Quina Aragon
Quina is the If Hurricanes Were Flowers, a novel-in-verse featuring poetry that spans cultures and continents. Through fantasy and suspense woven together with a thread of faith, readers are invited to explore themes of identity, migration, and belonging. If Hurricanes Were Flowers makes reading more accessible through shorter, engaging text, while offering an interactive poetry guide appendix that turns readers into writers.
If Hurricanes Were Flowers
by Quina Aragon
Meet the Author
Born in Manila
and raised in Orlando,
She is of Filipina, Puerto Rican, and Jamaican descent.
She has navigated layered identities, finding refuge in the warmth of her extended family.
Her writing explores identity, migration, and the way our personal and cultural stories echo Scripture's grand narrative.
Quina is also the author of the children’s book trilogy: Love Made 
, Love Gave 
, and Love Can 
, which poetically retell the storyline of Scripture through a Trinitarian lens of love.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Her first trade book (for grown ups) is titled Love Has a Story: 100 Meditations on the Enduring Love of God, inviting readers to see God’s love through Scripture’s story and their own. This book also features Quina’s personal story through over 40 of her poems. It’s biblical theology meets story work meets open mic night.
Quina has also contributed chapters to various books and Bible studies, including His Testimonies, My Heritage: Women of Color on the Word of God (Kristie Anyabwile), Lost and Found: How Jesus Helped Us Discover Our True Selves (Collin Hansen), The Weary World Rejoices: Daily Devotionals for Advent (Melissa Kruger), Advent: Living Hope (Christianity Today), and The Gospel Project (Adults – Winter 2019).
Her writing is also featured in Walter R. Strickland’s Swing Low, Volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States.
Published Books
from Quina Aragon
Love Has a Story
In Love Has a Story (Moody Publishers 2024), I invite you to explore God’s love as it has existed and moved throughout (and before) time, and how it intends to transform your own life story. I share some of my own story through poetry as well, while encouraging you to consider how your life is meant to be a story about God’s love, too.
This book is biblical theology, meets personal story work, meets your local coffee shop poet. Love has a story, and you’re a part of it. Watch the video trailer for Love Has a Story here.
- Theology in the Raw with Preston Sprinkle “When Trauma Meets the Love of God: Quina Aragon”
- Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison “Quina Aragon on the Enduring Love of God and God’s Heart for Migrants”
- The Habit Podcast with Jonathan Rogers “Quina Aragon Feels Unqualified but Compelled.”
- The Daily Grace Podcast “Experiencing the Love of God w/ Quina Aragon“
- Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin “Love Has a Story with Quina Aragon“
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