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Latinx Caribbean Heritage Panel — Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and Carmen Rita Wong — at Conn Ave

Location 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008
Date Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Duration   1 hours
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This is a free in-person event, and seating is first come, first served.

Join two acclaimed writers, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and Carmen Rita Wong, as they discuss their work and their shared Caribbean Heritage as part of our programming for Hispanic Heritage Month. 

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. As a child she was sent to live with her grandparents in Puerto Rico where she was introduced to the culture of rural Puerto Rico, including the storytelling that came naturally to the women in her family, especially the older women. Much of her work is based on her experiences during this time. Llanos-Figueroa taught creative writing, language and literature in the New York City school system before becoming a young-adult librarian and writer. The hardcover edition of Daughters of the Stone was shortlisted as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her second novel, A Woman of Endurance released in April 2022, the Spanish language edition, Indómita releases in May 2022. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines such as Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012Growing Up Girl, Afro-Hispanic Review, Pleaides, Latino Book Review, Label Me Latina/o, and Kweli Journal. She lives in New York City.

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