91ÇÑ×Ó

A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, Castro is the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies.

The event, brought to 91ÇÑ×Ó by its Distinguished Writers Series, is sponsored by the Galaxy Series. Admission is free and open to the public. The reading will feature excerpts from: How Winter Began, The Truth Book, and Flight Risk. Limited copies will be available for purchase and signing.

Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, which have been published in France by Gallimard’s historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award.

She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family and the founding series editor of Machete, a series in innovative literary nonfiction. She served as the guest judge of first Creative Nonfiction Award, and her work has appeared in Afro-Hispanic Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and many other regional publications.