We are thrilled to welcome Violeta Orozco to our Wednesday series of ten-minute live Zoom readings.

7:30 - 7:40 pm EST

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

The reading will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom. Registration for Zoom viewing is available through Eventbrite. Please register before 7:15 pm on the day of the event.

Violeta Orozco is an International Latino Book Award-winning author for her debut poetry collection, The Broken Woman Diaries (Andante Books 2022). A MeChicana bilingual writer, Latina poet, performer, and spoken word artist from Mexico City, she is also a Macondo Writers Workshop Fellow and winner of the Jacar Press New Voices Poetry Award 2021 selected by Jaki Shelton Green for her second poetry collection, Stillness in the Land of Speed.

Orozco is the author of El Cuarto de la Luna (Literal 2020) and the forthcoming collection Songs Like Talismans (Nomadic Press). She is also the translator of the award-winning novel Dreaming with Mariposas into Spanish and has a monthly column in Nueva York Poetry Review featuring Latina and Chicana poetry that she translates into Spanish. She holds an M.A. from Rutgers University and is completing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing, Translation, and Romance Literatures at the University of Cincinnati.

Find Violeta Orozco’s poetry in the latest great weather for MEDIA anthology, Arriving at a Shoreline.