Funeral for Flaca — Conversation on Craft and Coming-of-Age

The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands is invites you to join us for a public reading with Latinx memoirist Emilly Prado. Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, educator and DJ living in Portland, Oregon, with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut essay collection, "Funeral for Flaca," has been called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold and unique,” by Ms. Magazine and is a winner of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and a 2021 finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction and Foreward INDIES Book of the Year in two categories: Essays and Multicultural Nonfiction. 

Emilly will read from "Funeral for Flaca" and share about the evolving nature of finding her path as a writer. She draws upon her experiences as a first-generation Chicana college student and self-proclaimed troublemaker who struggled with school and mental health. In this talk, we'll also delve into the creation process for "Funeral for Flaca" which debuted as a handmade chapbook before it was published and expanded by the press, Future Tense Books.