Kristin Naca & Cristina Correa
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 7:30pm
Reading begins at 7:30PM.
Free admission, all ages.
Décima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago
A short Open Mic will begin the evening.
Kristin Naca was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in northern Virginia, and has lived numerous cities across the U.S. over the last two decades. A longtime member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Workshop, Naca recently made her home in San Antonio, Texas. Currently, Naca works as a professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her book of poems, Bird Eating Bird, was selected for the National Poetry Series mtvU Prize and was released by Harper Perennial. Naca is a frequent practitioner of Bikram yoga and an avid sports fan. She also follows the work of Mexican and Mexican American poets and painters; some of whom are the predominant artistic influences behind Naca’s bilingual poetry.
Cristina Correa is Chicago working artist and has been published in Latina Voices, Say What Magazine, Ghost Factory Magazine and participated in a poetic and visual exhibition entitled Convergence. A graduate of the Columbia College Fiction Writing Department and Alexandroff Community Scholar, she has taught creative writing and advocated for the empowerment of young people in the public schools and community organizations since 2004. Her chapbook, this is the year, was published by Watch the Steps Press.
