Javier Zamora — Solito - with Ana Patricia Rodríguez — at Conn Ave
Javier Zamora — Solito - with Ana Patricia Rodríguez — at Conn Ave
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
Zamora will be in conversation with Ana Patricia Rodríguez. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of U.S. Latina/o and Central American literatures in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely on Latinx and Central American transnational cultural production. She is the author of Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures and co-editor of De la hamaca al trono y al más allá: Lecturas críticas de la obra de Manlio Argueta.