Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: Reading + Q&A with Joy Castro

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.