Vanessa Angélica Villarreal will discuss using speculative nonfiction techniques as a social justice strategy on March 3.
Join Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Mandy Len Catron for a nerdy/accessible, heady/grounded discussion about using speculative nonfiction techniques as a social justice strategy. These techniques offer us a way to critique hegemonic representations and erasures, writing a fuller story into being – come find out how.
Audience & Location
- Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.
- The event will be live-streamed on Zoom.
Speakers
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (Tiny Reparations Books, Penguin, 2024), longlisted for the National Book Award, and Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and holds a doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she lives with her son.
Mandy Len Catron is the author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays. The book was listed for the 2018 RCB Taylor Prize and the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Catapult, and The Walrus among many others. Her essays and talks have been translated into over thirty languages. She is originally from Appalachian, Virginia.
