Write Like A Mother | Group Reading, Q&A
Group Reading with Luivette Resto, Elizabeth L. Silver, Samantha Dunn, Cassandra Lane, Natashia Deón, Carribean Fragoza, Domenica Ruta
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18604 Ventura Blvd
18604 Ventura Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 91356About this event
- Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes
Sunny's Bookshop - Located inside our floral shop Shades of Petals (Tarzana, CA)
Join us for a group reading and lively discussion with Luivette Resto, Elizabeth L. Silver, Samantha Dunn, Cassandra Lane, Natashia Deón, Carribean Fragoza, and Domenica Ruta!
ABOUT LUIVETTE RESTO
Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet, a mother of three revolutionary humans, and a middle school English teacher. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has three books of poetry: Unfinished Portrait, Ascension, and Living on Islands Not Found on Maps. She is the associate editor of Tía Chucha Press, one of the co-hosts of Poetry LA, and she sits on the boards for Women Who Submit and Beyond Baroque.
ABOUT ELIZABETH L. SILVER
Elizabeth L Silver is the author of the novels, The Majority (Riverhead) and The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (Crown), as well as the memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty (Penguin Press). She currently teaches creative writing with the UCLA Writers Program. She is the founder and director of Onward Literary and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
ABOUT SAMANTHA DUNN
Samantha Dunn is the senior editor of premium content at the Southern California News Group. She produces the company's virtual program BOOKISH, about authors and the literary life. She is also the author of several books including the novel Failing Paris, a PEN West award finalist, and the bestselling memoirs, Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life and Faith in Carlis Gomez.Sam also teaches nonfiction writing at Chapman University and at the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers.
ABOUT CASSANDRA LANE
Cassandra Lane is author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press) and winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is editor in chief of L.A. Parent magazine in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in the L.A. Times, MSNBC.com, Everything But the Burden, Writers Resist, Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California, The NYT’s “Conception” series and more.
ABOUT NATASHIA DEÓN
Natashia Deón is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, judge for the LA Times Book Prize (Fiction and Debut Fiction), and author of the critically acclaimed novels, GRACE and The Perishing. A professor of creative writing at UCLA and Antioch University, her personal essays have been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, and other places.
ABOUT CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA
Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine and 2023 Whiting Literary Award recipient.
ABOUT DOMENICA RUTA
Domenica Ruta is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir With or Without You and the novels Last Day and All the Mothers. She co-edited the anthology We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart and Humor. She lives in New York City with her family.