By CSC College Relations
CHADRON, Neb. – A public reading by Dr. Joy Castro followed by a question and answer session, is set for Wednesday, April 22 at 4 p.m. at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center. The event is free and open to the public.
A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, Castro is the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies.
The event, brought to CSC by its Distinguished Writers Series, is sponsored by the Galaxy Series. Admission is free and open to the public. The reading will feature excerpts from: How Winter Began, The Truth Book and Flight Risk. Limited copies will be available for purchase and signing.
Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, which have been published in France by Gallimard’s historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award.
She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family and the founding series editor of Machete, a series in innovative literary nonfiction. She served as the guest judge of CRAFT’s first Creative Nonfiction Award, and her work has appeared in Afro-Hispanic Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and many other regional publications.