Join us at 18th Street Casa de Cultura for a keynote address from critically-acclaimed author Alejandra Oliva on this year’s festival theme, Saturation/ Saturación. Oliva will read from her recent memoir, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration (Astra House, 2023) and join author and Lit & Luz alum Juan Martinez in conversation.
Meet the author after the event for a book signing and a complimentary cafecito reception courtesy of Dark Matter Coffee and Bittersweet Pilsen to celebrate the beginning of the festival week.
Alejandra Oliva is an essayist, embroiderer and translator. She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Whiting Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, nominated for a Pushcart prize, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Presented in partnership with UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas and 18th Street Casa de Cultura.