Bookworks to host 'How Latina Voices Enrich the American Story'

AT BOOKWORKS

Three Latina writers will read from, discuss and sign their work at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Bookworks. The event is titled “How Latina Voices Enrich the American Story.”

The writers are Cara Lopez Lee, author of the recent historical novel “Candlelight Bridge,” Albuquerque poet-essayist Michelle Otero and Briana Muñoz, author of the bilingual collection of poems “Everything Is Returned to the Soil.”

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

Bookworks to host 'How Latina Voices Enrich the American Story' on June 11

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Marcia Rosen reads from and signs copies of her memoir “My Gangster Father and Me!” from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at Treasure House. It’s about the author’s relationship with her father and how his life affected hers.

Treasure House Books & Gifts is at 2012 South Plaza St. NW, Old Town.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

National Book Award winner Arthur Sze of Santa Fe discusses his anthology “The Silk Dragon II” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 13, at Collected Works. His book is described as a one-of-a-kind anthology that traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions to the present.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe.

AT GARCIA STREET BOOKS

Santa Fe author Sallie Bingham will discuss and sign her new book “Taken by the Shawnee” at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9.

Alexis Landau will talk about and sign copies of her new novel, “The Mother of All Things,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, June 10. The story is billed as a daring novel from the author of “Those Who Are Saved,” zeroing in on issues of female rage, grief and creativity. They collide in the present as a woman reconnects her inner self with an ancient female world that parallels her own.

The bookstore is at 376 Garcia St., Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

SOMOS Salon will host three evenings of author events.

Laura Jacobs will discuss “Surviving Trans Phobia” at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9. Jacobs is a trans and gender-queer psychotherapist.

Cara Lopez Lee will chat about her new historical novel “Candlelight Bridge” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 13. The novel is set in 1910 El Paso. Twelve-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family escape the violence of the Mexican Revolution through the Chihuahuan Desert to El Paso. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution to America. Rivera and Wong struggle to find a home.

Writers Misha Sauceda of Albuquerque and Winter Ross of the Taos area read from their works at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 14. Sauceda’s novel is titled “Shadows of the Black Flame.” Ross’ chapbook of lyric prose is “4 Warnings: Shamanic Journeys.”

SOMOS Salon is at 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos

Compiled by David Steinberg/ For the Journal