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Please join the English Department in welcoming three renowned Colombian writers for an evening of readings and discussion. 

Please RSVP for free tickets at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/colombian-writers-symposium-tickets-1538123451649

Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical and ¡Cuéntamelo!, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants. The Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour.

Gloria Susana Esquivel is a journalist, writer, translator, and poet. She is the author of the novels Animals at the End of the World and Contradeseo, the non-fiction book ¡Dinamita! Mujeres rebeldes en la Colombia del Siglo XX, and the poetry collection El lado salvaje. Since 2018 she has been producing and hosting Womansplaining, a podcast about feminism and Latin American culture, broadcasted by 070 magazine. Her poems have been published in the UNAM Poetry Magazine, the magazine Wandering Words and Matera magazine. Her stories have appeared in Colombian narrative anthology Puñalada trapera (Rey Naranjo, 2017) and in the Casa de las Américas magazine. She has collaborated with artist Daniel Salamanca in projects that combine poetry, narrative and plastic arts. She has completed a Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the New York University (NYU). She is a professor of the Master of Creative Writing from the Caro y Cuervo Institute. 

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author of peluda and the novel-in-verse Dreaming of You , as well as Candelaria, which was named one of the best books of 2023 by Vogue and USA Today. Her collection of short stories Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! was released in September 2025. Her newsletter Reading Sucks tracks the books she’s read and the distractions she had while reading them, while interviewing authors about their relationship to reading. Melissa has done brand work with Facebook, Instagram, Google, Armani, and Topo Chico Hard Seltzer. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in NPR, VOGUE, REMEZCLA, PAPER, The Guardian, BreakBeat Poets, Kenyon Review, Vulture, Bustle, Glamour Magazine, The Huffington Post, Muzzle Magazine, The Adroit Journal, and BBC Mundo. She teaches fiction and poetry at the Center for Fiction and the Red Hook Public Library.