Ana Villalpando is a transfronteriza researcher and artist born in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Baja California, an MA in Education from California State University, Long Beach and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literatures in Spanish at University of California, San Diego. Her art has been exhibited at The Front, The Woo and Centro Cultural La Raza in San Diego, California; her poetry has been published by UCLA’s Párrafo magazine, Chilean magazine La Raza cómica, NYU's Esferas Journal and UTEP's Rio Grande Review.
Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and writer raised in Oakland, CA. She is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department at UCSD, where she researches Asian American feminist and queer texts’ approaches to history, refusal, and relations to land and water. Phuong is the author of two poetry collections, A Plucked Zither (Red Hen Press, 2023), which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award 2021, and The House I Inherit (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her poetry and essays have also been published in a range of literary journals.
Nilufar Karimi is a poet, scholar, translator and educator. Her work thinks through the intersections of translation, environmental justice, disability, and the practices of medicine. She is the author of Nuclear Deal (Noemi Press, 2021) and Notes on Digging (Belladonna*Collaborative, 2022)
Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer who was born in Kampala. Tramaine is a graduate of the Iowa Wirters' Workshop and the author of two full-length poetry collections.
Vyxz Vasquez is a writer and educator from the Philippines. She released two books this year: One Time Big Time & other poems (University of the Philippines Press), which is her first full-length collection, and Pensionados from Tijuana-based small press ediciones caradura.
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Location:
International House
UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA
Wednesday, December 2 - 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
