Name: Torch Wildfire Reading Series featuring Icess Fernandez Rojas
Start: 2024-09-28T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Red Salmon Arts

Torch Wildfire Reading Series featuring Icess Fernandez Rojas

Torch Literary Arts

Join us for a reading and book signing with Icess Fernandez Rojas, author of The Opposite of Breathing is Cement: Poetry and Prose.

Red Salmon Arts

Torch Literary Arts presents the Wildfire Reading Series featuring Icess Fernandez Rojas, author of The Opposite of Breathing is Cement: Poetry and Prose. A Q&amp;A and book signing will follow the reading. <a href="https://icessfernandez.com/" title="https://icessfernandez.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Icess Fernandez Rojas</a> is an educator, writer, and a former journalist. She is a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program and the University of Houston. Her work has been internationally published in Queen Mobs Lit Journal, Poetry 24, Rabble Lit, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and the Feminine Collective’s anthology Notes from Humanity. Her Houston-based story, “Happy Hunting”, was published in the Houston Noir anthology.Her nonfiction/memoir work has appeared in Dear Hope, NBCNews.com, HuffPost and the Guardian. She is a recipient of the Owl of Minerva Award, a VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation alum, a Dos Brujas Workshop alum, Yale Writers Workshop alum, and a Kimbilio Fellow. Her first poetry collection, The Opposite of Breathing is Cement, was published by Four Palaces Publishing. She is currently finishing her memoir, Problematic. <a href="https://www.torchliteraryarts.org/" title="https://www.torchliteraryarts.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Torch Literary Arts</a> is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to publish and promote creative writing by Black women. We publish contemporary writing by emerging and experienced writers alike. Torch has featured work by Colleen J. McElroy, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Elizabeth Alexander, and others. Programs include the Wildfire Reading Series, writing workshops, retreats, and special events. This program is made possible with support from the Austin Cultural Arts Division, the Burdine Johnson Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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