Friday, September 29th 6pm
Suggested Donation: 10$
Join us in LRMA’s Interactive Gallery on Friday September 29th at 6pm as we welcome Colombian writers Yuly Restrepo Garcés, Editor of the Tampa Review and Professor of English and Writing at University of Tampa, and Gloria Muñoz, poet laureate of St. Petersburg, in a reading honoring Hispanic Heritage Month.
Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly (University of Arizona Press, 2021), which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, a Las Musas Mentorship, St. Pete Arts Alliance’s Muse Award, Creative Pinellas’ Artist Grant, and attending the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. She is proud to be St. Pete’s first Latina poet laureate.
Yuly Restrepo Garcés was born in Medellín, Colombia, and came to the United States over twenty years ago as an asylee. Her writing has previously appeared in Tampa Bay Noir, CutBank, Catapult, PRISM International, Natural Bridge, and Zone 3. She is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, a MacDowell fellow, and a professor of English at the University of Tampa.