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The Nasiona presents Community Readings, our monthly, free, virtual series hosted by
Mireya S. Vela.

During these troubled times, it’s important to come together to support art. We invite you to join us to celebrate the power of The Nasiona‘s writers, as well as the voices of talented storytellers from the wider community: Lisa D. Gray, Ana Reyes-Bonar, Tiffany Niles, and Juan Carlos Reyes.⁣⁣

With this FREE virtual series, we continue The Nasiona‘s mission to center, elevate, and amplify the voices, histories, and experiences of those marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, silenced, and forgotten by the dominant culture. We welcome all allies and co-conspirators, but note that this event is first and foremost a safe space to project and protect writers from the aforementioned communities as they flex their beauty and power.
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READERS
 

Lisa D. Gray opens doors and helps other writers of color claim space in writing and publishing by curating several reading series in the Bay Area. She established Our Voices Our Stories SF in 2014 as a way to amplify and elevate the voices of women writers of color. Lisa won the 2018 Edgar Award named for Robert L. Fish and the Henry Joseph Jackson Prize for Distinguished Fiction in 2014. She was a Fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto where she is now a member, and has earned writing scholarships to attend The Fine Arts Works Center, The Voices of Our Nations Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center where she completed a residency. She is currently a fellow at The Ruby San Francisco and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Spelman College and Mills College.

Twitter: @ovossf and @randomlisasf

Instagram: @ovossf and @randomlisasf

lisawrites.life 

ourvoicesourstoriessf.com


Ana Reyes-Bonar is a Puerto Rican Texan Mexican American writer who, through creative nonfiction, insists on multitudes and the importance of personal narrative as histories.

a.reyesbonar@gmail.com

Tiffany Niles has recently obtained her AA in Creative Writing from Long Beach City College. She will be continuing her studies at the University of British Columbia for her BFA in 2020/2021. Tiffany has grown to love all aspects of the writing/publishing community and hopes to help other marginalized writers find their voices and tell their stories. Her story “Secret Admirer” was published in the Charmed Writers Flash Fiction Anthology in 2018; “Father and Son” was published through Perennial Press’ Super/Natural anthology (2019), and her first CNF piece “All My Safe Spaces Are Dead” is published here at The Nasiona. She is excited to be working as a partner for Perennial Press where she volunteers her time as a developmental editor, designer, correspondent, and social media liaison.

Instagram: @TifWrites & @PerennialPress


Twitter: @JenniferCie1Jennifer Cie is a southern writer that embeds pop-culture throughout her work to preserve the histories of marginalized peoples and examine the idea of place beyond physical location. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Empty Mirror, New South Journal, Philadelphia Printworks, and elsewhere. Website: jennifercie.com

Instagram: @JenniferCie1

 
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