Lily Hoang & Meliza Bañales
UCSD's New Writing Series will host a reading with Lily Hoang & Meliza Bañales at the Geisel Library in the Seuss Room. This event is free and open to the public. Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego.
Meliza Bañales aka Missy Fuego is an award-winning author, performer, filmmaker, educator, and cultural critic. Her writing has been anthologized for over two decades, and is the author of three books: Say It With Your Whole Mouth: Poems (Monkey Press, 2003), 51 Poems About Nothing At All: Chapbook, Poems (Ladybox Books, 2016), and Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific (Ladybox Books, 2015), which was a 2016 Lambda Literary Finalist for Best LGBT Debut Fiction.