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Latina(s) Writing from the South
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Thu, Mar 19, 2026
5 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Sheppard Library Main Meeting Room
530 Evans St, Greenville, NC 27858, Greenville, NC 27858, United States
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Details
In collaboration with Hablemos Escritoras the conversation will form part of a future podcast episode, extending its reach beyond campus and into national and international literary networks.
This exciting conversation is open to students, to faculty, and to the broader community. It is hosted by Dr. Amy E. Wright, the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences with the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, in partnership with the Department of English.
Agenda
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Thu, Mar 19, 2026
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Meet & Greet for Latina(s) Writing from the South
Join us for a Meet & Greet with the authors featured in the Latina(s) Writing from the South event! You can view the full list of participating authors on the Event Page. To access the Event Page, simply click “Register.”
This Meet & Greet is hosted by Dr. Amy E. Wright, the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences with the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, in partnership with the Department of English.
Where
Sheppard Library Main Meeting Room
530 Evans St, Greenville, NC 27858, Greenville, NC 27858, United States
Speakers
Dailihana Alfonseca
Biography
Dailihana Alfonseca is a poet, writer, researcher, and professor. A graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill, she considers herself a Carolinian, having lived and studied in both North and South Carolina for over a decade. Her writing blends research on medical discourse, personal narrative, and fiction to examine representations of “insanity” in literature by immigrant women, while tracing parallels to her own childhood experiences and trauma.
Her short story “Spanish Soap Operas Killed My Mother” won the Robert J. Dau Prize for Debut Fiction in 2023 and was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently working on her first poetry collection and a follow-up work, Merengues Murdered My Father, which explores Afro-Latin-Caribbean heritage, family structures, and cultural memory. Outside of writing, she rescues dogs, volunteers at a literacy center, travels with her family, and reads avidly.
Works
- "Spanish Soap Operas Killed My Mother"
- [In progress] Merengues Murdered My Father
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Biography
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globe-trotting author from the Texas-Mexico borderlands. A professor of creative nonfiction at UNC-Chapel Hill, she has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC an Oxford American, among others. Elizondo Griest has won numerous awards, and has performed in capacities ranging from a Moth storyteller to a US State Department literary ambassador. Wanderlust has led her to 50 countries and 49 states. Her hardest journey was to Planet Cancer in 2017, but she is now officially in remission. Elizondo Griest recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos, a research grant for student journalists from the borderlands who are enrolled at her alma mater, UT-Austin’s School of Journalism.
Works
- Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys & Torments of a Creative Life
- Mexican Enough
- All the Agents & Saints
- Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing & Havana
Von Diaz
Biography
Von Diaz is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian and food historian. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Atlanta, GA, she explores the intersections of food, culture, and identity. She has contributed recipes and essays to a number of cookbooks and anthologies, is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, as well as NPR, Food & Wine Magazine, and Bon Appétit, among many others. Today, she is an editor and Senior Producer for StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in the U.S., producing broadcasts for NPR’s Morning Edition. In addition, she has taught food studies and oral history at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as food writing and audio production at New York University and The New School.
Works
- Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking
- Coconuts & Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
Tita Ramírez
Biography
Tita Ramírez is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Elon University in North Carolina, where she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction and mentors emerging writers. Originally from Miami and the daughter of a Cuban exile and a Kentucky native, Ramírez draws on her Cuban American heritage and bilingual upbringing in her storytelling. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Literary Hub, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Tell It to Me Singing, published by Simon & Schuster, explores family secrets, identity, and the Cuban American experience through elements inspired by telenovelas and diasporic memory. The book has received praise for its emotional depth, humor, and resonance with readers across cultural backgrounds. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons
Works
- “Geography”
- Tell It to Me Singing
Adriana Pacheco
Biography
Adriana Pacheco, PhD, is an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder and producer of the Hablemos Escritoras podcast and digital encyclopedia. She holds a PhD in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures from UT Austin and serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Book Festival. A Texas Book Festival Feature Author (2012), she has published widely in international cultural magazines and academic journals, including her column “Troyanas” in magazine Literal. Pacheco’s scholarship and public humanities work center on contemporary Latin American women writers, gender, violence, and cultural production. Pacheco has edited influential critical volumes, served as a jury member for the Premio José Donoso (2024), and produced award-winning literary documentaries. Born in Puebla, Mexico, she is a naturalized U.S. citizen based in Austin, Texas. She is also the founder of Casa del Sol, a private orphanage established in Puebla in 1988.
Works
- Romper con la palabra. Violencia y género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea (2017)
- Para seguir rompiendo con la palabra (2021)
- “La inoculación de un sueño. Rosa Beltrán y el desencanto posmoderno” (2023)
- Una conversación necesaria (2022, documentary)
- Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán: A Witness of Our Time (2024, documentary)