MVP Fridays – Javier Zamora: “What can immigrant stories teach us?”

September 20, 2024 (Miami of Ohio game)
4:00 p.m., reception to follow
Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Javier Zamora is a Salvadoran poet and activist. In his debut New York Times bestselling memoir, SOLITO (Hogarth, September 2022), Javier retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert. Zamora was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation (Ruth Lilly), Stanford University (Stegner), and Yaddo. He is the recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2017 Narrative Prize, and the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.

Co-sponsors: Creative Writing Program, Department of American Studies, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, Institute for Latino Studies

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Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons of home football weekends for lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Reception and book signing to follow.