Vermont Studio Center will host a Writer to Writer: Conversations on Craft & Featured Readings series with authors Francisco Cantú and Emilio Carrero. This event is free and open to the public and will take place on Zoom.

Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. A former Fulbright fellow, he has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship. His writing and translations have been featured in The New Yorker, Best American Essays, Harper’s, and VQR, as well as on This American Life. A lifelong resident of the Southwest, he now lives in Tucson and coordinates the Field Studies in Writing Program at the University of Arizona, a residency that fosters work at the intersection of border justice and environmental issues.

Emilio Carrero is a recent postdoctoral fellow in English from the University of Arizona. His work has been published on Terrain.org, Essay Daily, Guernica, and is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online. He has received scholarships from the Aspen Institute, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He is a former fellow for the Field Studies in Writing Program at the University of Arizona and the former editor-in-chief of Sonora Review. He is currently working on a memoir.

To register, please visit: https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/writertowriter-francisocantu-emiliocarrero

Sep 25, 2024, 10 AM

Sep 27, 2024, 12:30 to 4:30 PM

Sep 28, 2024, 10:15 to 11:15 AM