Jazmina Barrera in Conversation

On Thursday, October 15, at 7:00 the Cheuse Center will welcome the Mexican writer Jazmina Barrera to discuss her book On Lighthouses, which is part literary history and part personal memoir. “In trying to ‘collect’ lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others.” 

 

This event is in conjunction with Fall for the Book and the Mexican Cultural Institute. Register for the event here.

 

Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media, such as Paris Review, El Malpensante, Words Without Borders, Nexos, Letras Libres and Electric Literature. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. Her book, On Lighthouses was published in 2020 by Two Lines Press. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.