Carlos Villacorta and Oswaldo Estrada will present their most recent fiction, ALICIA ESTO ES EL CAPITALISMO (Miami: Suburbano, 2025) and DREAMS IN TIMES OF WAR / SOÑAR EN TIEMPOS DE GUERRA (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Reading and discussion in Spanish and Spanglish

Oswaldo Estrada (Santa Ana, California, 1976) is a Peruvian-American writer. He is the author of a children’s book, El secreto de los trenes (2018), and of three collections of short stories, Luces de emergencia (2019), Las locas ilusiones y otros relatos de migración (2020), and Las guerras perdidas (2021). He has edited the volume Incurables. Relatos de dolencias y males (2020) with twenty Latin American authors who live in the US. In 2020, he won two International Latino Book Awards, as well as the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize from Tufts University. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. His book Las guerras perdidas won a Gold Medal (First Place) for Best Collection of Short Stories in Spanish at the International Latino Book Awards 2022. He is the author of the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (2023), and a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Dreams in Times of War / Soñar en tiempos de guerra (2025).

OSWALDO ESTRADA is a Peruvian-American writer and teaches Latin American Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. He has published several books of literary and cultural criticism, three collections of short stories and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Suburbano, 2023). He has received awards from the International Latino Book Awards, the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and the Fulbright Foundation.

 ROCIO FERREIRA is the head of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Culture and Cinema at DePaul University in Chicago; she is also co-director of the international poetry festival, Poesía en Abril of Chicago. She specializes in 19th-century and contemporary literary and visual culture created by women and is now working on the representation of the Peruvian armed conflict in literature written by women.