Join authors Jazmina Barrera and Gabriela Wiener at the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for a virtual event to discuss their books on pregnancy and motherhood, Linea Nigra and Nine Moons. They will be in conversation with Rivka Galchen, author of Rat Rule 79.

The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith focuses on stories of migration, the intersection of politics and literature, and works in translation and is supported by the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith.

When: Tuesday, June 18 at 12:00pm EST
Where: Online, via Brookline Brooksmith. This virtual event is free to attend. Register here to receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. If you don't receive a confirmation email after registering, contact Brookline Brooksmith.

Participants:
Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Sexographies, Nine Moons, Llamada perdida (Missed Call), Dicen de mí (What They Say about Me), and the book of poems Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu (Exercises for the Hardening of the Spirit). Her work has appeared in national and international anthologies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, French, and Italian. Her first stories were published in the Peruvian narrative journalism magazine Etiqueta Negra. She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire in Spain and now regularly publishes opinion columns in Eldiario.es, VICE, and the New York Times en Español, as well as a video column for lamula.pe.

Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media, such as Nexos, Este País, Dossier, Vice, El Malpensante, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope.

Moderator:
Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of 20 Under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) and her story collection American Innovations were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. Her most recent book is Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. She has received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rat Rule 79 is her first book for young readers.