Myriam Gurba Reading and Q&A

We invite you to join us for a reading and Q&A with the writer and artist Myriam Gurba, who will be discussing her new book, Creep: Accusation and Confessions (2023).

Myriam Gurba is a writer and activist. Her first book, the short story collection Dahlia Season, won the Edmund White Award for debut fiction. O, the Oprah Magazine, ranked her true crime memoir Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Creep, her most recent book, is a finalist for a National Book Critics’ Circle award in criticism. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, and Paris Review have published her work. She is a co-founder of Dignidad Literaria, a grassroots organization committed to combatting racism in the book world. She is active in the anti-rape movement.

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This event is organized by the Helena María Viramontes Lecture Committee and is sponsored by the Transnational Feminist Solidarities Collective and the CLA Thematic Initiative, the CLA Scholarly Intersections, the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.