Word Up Community Bookshop & Primero Sueño Press present authors Maria Hinojosa & Luis Jaramillo with editor Michelle Herrera Mulliganto to discuss the Latinx publishing experience and why publishing Latinx voices matters.This event is FREE with registration. Please register in advance to attend.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latinx news program in the country. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. Her podcast series Suave won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2022. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. She lives with her family in Harlem in New York City.
Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Witches of El Paso and the award-winning short story collection, The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared in LitHub, BOMB Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at The New School. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MFA from The New School. Find out more at LuisJaramillo.com.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Michelle Herrera Mulligan (she/her/ella) is vice president and associate publisher of Primero Sueño Press/Atria Books. She has published groundbreaking fiction and non-fiction including Forever Strong, an instant New York Times bestseller, Danny Trejo’s critically acclaimed Trejo, and Pomegranate, named one of Amazon’s best books of the year in 2023. In 2020, she was named one of the top 100 most influential Latinas in the United States by Latino Leaders magazine.
Authors Include: Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, Vanessa and Xander Marin, Cleo Wade, Danny Trejo, Maria Hinojosa, Rob Kenner, Reyna Grande, Chiquis Rivera, Helen Elaine Lee, and Caro de Robertis
Event Venue
876 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10032-5403, United States, 662 W 160th St, New York, NY 10032-6529, United States,New York, New York, Fort Lee
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