Myriam Gurba and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
This captivating discussion featuring two dynamic and boundary-pushing authors, Myriam Gurba and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, delves into the multifaceted realms of intersectional Latinx identities, the expansive landscape of creative nonfiction, and the crucial task of confronting oppression and abuse of power. Gurba is a writer, artist, and activist, and author of the iconic true crime memoir, Mean, and the recent essay collection, Creep, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Rojas Contreras’s dazzling debut memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, explores her Colombian identity and reckons with the bounds of reality through an oral history that challenges Western notions of history and memory. The two authors will be in conversation, speaking to the urgency of writing our stories as we need to tell them, why there’s more space within creative nonfiction than Western traditions will have us believe, and why confronting oppression in our writing and in our lived experience is essential.
