Jennine Crucet on How to Leave Hialeah, Mia Leonin on Havana and Other Missing Fathers and Cecilia Milanes Rodriguez on Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles
Saturday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m., Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Jennine Capo Crucet
Jennine Capo Crucet was born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Northwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. Her book of linked short stories, How to Leave Hialeah (University of Iowa Press), is “an engrossing collection” --Publishers Weekly.
Mia Leonin
Mia Leonin teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. She is the author of two books of poetry, Braid and Unraveling the Bed. Her poems have been published in such journals as New Letters, Indiana Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press), tells of her search for the truth about her family.
Cecilia Milanes Rodriguez
Ceciia Milanes Rodriguez teaches Latino/a literature and writing as a professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her first book of short fiction, Marielitos, Balseros and other Exiles (Ig Publishers), appeared in May. “Complex and woeful, Milanés's rich ensemble act may remind readers of Junot Diaz's Drown and Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son."—Publishers Weekly
Schedule
| Saturday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m. |
Free |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
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