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De Las Islas: A Celebration of Cuba & Puerto Rico with Achy Obejas, Jennine Capó Crucet, Nicole Sealey

Date(s): Saturday, February 23, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Location:
Carson Ballroom, Old Main, Arizona State University Tempe, 400 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
Type(s): 
Reading
Genre and Form(s): Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Fiction, Mixed Genre, Poetry, Short Stories
Cost: Free

About this Event

The Borderlands Reading Series and the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference present De Las Islas: A Celebration of Cuba and Puerto Rico with Achy Obejas, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Nicole Sealey on Saturday, February 23, 2019 in Carson Ballroom at Old Main, Arizona State University Tempe (400 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281) at 7:30 p.m.

The event will also be live-streamed. To watch the live stream, visit ASU Now's website at https://asunow.asu.edu/asulive.

While encouraged, RSVPs are purely for the purposes of monitoring attendance, gauging interest, and communicating information about parking, directions, and other aspects of the event. You do not have to register or RSVP to attend this event. This event is open to the public and free.

Sponsored by archi[TEXTS] and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

About the Authors

Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference Faculty 2019 Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the critically acclaimed author of The Tower of the Antilles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN Open Book Award and the Aspen Word Prize. Her previous books include Days of Awe and Ruins. As a translator, she's worked with Junot Díaz, Wendy Guerra and Rita Indiana, among others.
Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference Faculty 2019 Jennine Capó Crucet
Jennine Capó Crucet is a novelist, essayist, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers was the winner of the International Latino Book Award, a New York Times Editor's Choice book, and was cited as a best book of the year by NBC Latino, the Guardian, and the Miami Herald.
Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference Faculty 2019 Nicole Sealey
Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.
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