La Llorona, Poetry & Prose, by Olga Rosales Salinas, RSS Fundraiser

812 Sutter Street,San Francisco CA 94109

18 September, 2021

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La Llorona, Poetry & Prose, by Olga Rosales Salinas, a RS Scholarship Fundraiser, published by Birch Bench Press, San Francisco, CA Join us for the debut release of Olga Rosales Salinas' collection of poetry and prose, La Llorona in San Francisco, hosted by Habitat Hair salon. The event will include a reading from poet, Laura Vrcek, and Olga Rosales Salinas reading and signing the collection. There will be snacks and White Claws - Join us! About the Author Rosales Salinas is a poet and nonfiction writer interested in the intersectionality and ambiguity of the various roles she plays as mother, daughter, Latinx-sister, philanthropist, and fan of dry humor and martinis. She has lived her life writing down experiences as a way to process, heal, and celebrate. Her work explores themes of sisterhood, assimilation culture, faith, loss, dating, marriage, motherhood, and womanhood overall.  The book’s hallmark short story is La Llorona, wherein Rosales Salinas reimagines the folklore she was told as a child and places it in a modern-day Watsonville, California. In that short story we also meet the Rivas family who are confronted with their own haunting as told from the same street and vantage point as La Llorona. While this story takes its liberties with the original folklore, Rosales Salinas imagines that La Llorona was more than just folklore. She imagines her as a real mother, full of loss and regret, and yes, as an undiagnosed victim of postpartum psychosis.  *All proceeds from this publication will benefit the #RosalesSistersScholarship -- a scholarship benefiting first-generation and immigrant students in the Central Coast of California. *La Llorona, will be available for purchase.