Event Description
Brown People Don’t Read? pushes boundaries and dispels the myth that brown people don't value the written word. Our authors bend words and minds with proactive writing that changes the notion that brown people don't read. This year we bring you voices of humor and rage, wonder and introspection.
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Curator: Lisa D. Gray
Lisa D. Gray’s award winning writing appears in lit journals As Us, Mission at Tenth, and New Haven Noir, a recent anthology. Her short story collection, American Like Me is searching for a home.
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Event Readers
Blanca Torres-Aldana
Blanca Torres-Aldana earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College and is a founding member of Sunday Stories. She is finishing a short story collection and a memoir about her mother’s childhood in Mexico.
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Scott Russell Duncan
Scott Russell Duncan is a Chicano writer with the whitest name in America. His unpublished novel The Ramona Diary of SRD is about Spanish California. See scottrussellduncan.com
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Jenny Irizary
Jenny Irizary is working on a memoir about growing up along the Russian River. Her work is published in Sick Lit, Squalorly, Snapping Twig, Communion, Atticus Review, and other journals.
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Aya de Leon
Aya de Leon’s award winning, feminist heist series, “Justice Hustlers,” includes, Uptown Thief, (2016) and The Boss (2017). Her bylines include Ebony, Guernica, VICE, Writers Digest, and Bitch Magazine. She teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley.
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Roger Porter
Roger Porter is a writer and educator from Oakland, CA. His book, The Souls of Hood Folk, is available at lulu.com. He has a degree in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. He describes himself as “An average everyday man from East Oakland who writes about average everyday hood life. He blogs at ghettosun.com.
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