lmnl reading series ft. Chris Romaguera, Leah Myers, and Ariel Francisco!

3044 St. Claude,New Orleans LA 70117

21 May, 2023

Description

Local writer Chris Romaguera and local-ish writer Ariel Francisco will be joined by Leah Myers for the launch of her debut memoir, Thinning Blood. This will be a night you won't want to miss! Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in Hialeah, Florida and graduated from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Passages North, PANK Magazine, Louisiana Literature, Catapult, Massachusetts Review and other publications. He is a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog and is the Poetry Editor at Peauxdunque Review. Romaguera is a VONA alum and a 2023 Periplus Fellow. Leah Myers is a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Samuel Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. She now lives in Alabama, with roots in Georgia, Arizona, and Washington. Her work has previously appeared in Fugue Journal, Craft Literary Magazine, High Shelf Press, and elsewhere. Her debut memoir, Thinning Blood: a Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2023. Ariel Francisco is the author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020) and All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2023) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.