The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, supported by the Department of Writing and the School of Humanities and Sciences, is excited to host a virtual reading and Q&A by fiction writer and essayist Joy Castro on Thursday, February 11, at 6:00 p.m.
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the forthcoming novel Flight Risk, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the short fiction collection How Winter Began, the memoir The Truth Book, and the essay collection Island of Bones. She has been the winner of the Nebraska Book Award and an International Latino Book Award, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the editor of the anthology Family Trouble. She teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Read an excerpt from Joy Castro's forthcoming novel, Flight Risk, here.
- Watch Joy Castro's lecture "Writing Memoir, Writing Crime: Creativity as Sociopolitical Intervention" here.
- Read more fiction and essays by Joy Castro here.
This event is free and open to the public. REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jacob White at jrwhite@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.