Meet the Author - Emilly Flaco - Funeral for Flaca

1044 Middlefield Road,Redwood City CA 94063

31 August, 2021

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“This book is brilliant. It tells the unique stories of what it means to grow up Latina in the U.S." - Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez The Redwood City Public Library is proud to present Live Meet the Author with Emilly Prado - Funeral for Flaca Emilly is the author of the essay collection, Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, July 2021) and the youth non-fiction title Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019.) She is Blackburn Fellow and MFA candidate at Randolph College, a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna amongst others, co-founder of Portland in Color, and the Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts. Emilly also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Emilly's roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. Register today! Tuesday August 31 @ 5:30pm PDT: Meet the author. There will be an opportunity for Q&A and book sales and signing.Recommended for ages 16+This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library For more information contact: [email protected]