Wednesday, September 8, 6:30-7:45pm

Join Kati and Emilly G. Prado for a reading and conversation at Tucson’s new Barrio Books, located at Hotel McCoy. Emilly is the author of Funeral For Flaca, which retraces her experience coming of age in the ‘90s and ‘00s as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk, in a collection one-part memoir-in-essays and one-part playlist. (She is also one of Kati’s former students!) After they read, local writer Natalie Lima will facilitate a conversation at the intersection of these raw, honest books.

This conversation will be held outdoors in Hotel McCoy’s Zen Zone. Books, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

Emilly Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have been published hundreds of times, appearing in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, The Stranger, Remezcla, and Travel Oregon.

In addition to Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, July 2021), Emilly is the author of the youth non-fiction title Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019.) She is Blackburn Fellow and MFA candidate at Randolph College, a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna amongst others, co-founder of Portland in Color, and the Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts. Emilly also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017.