Join us on Thursday, July 4th at the Castle for Amanda Gunn & Pilar Quinteros Presentations. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.
Amanda Gunn
Writing, USA
Amanda Gunn is a poet, teacher, and PhD candidate in English at Harvard. Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copyeditor for 13 years before earning an MFA in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize as well as a Pushcart Prize and has received fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her debut collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body, is out now from Copper Canyon Press.
Pilar Quinteros
Visual Arts, Chile
Pilar Quinteros, born in 1988 in Santiago, Chile, lived her first 14 years in the south of Chile and moved back to Santiago with her family in 2001. She has since lived in different places as part of her artist practice. She currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. In her work she combines drawing, audio, performance, and video to investigate themes related to history, notions of “reality,” and transformations of specific contexts. Quinteros earned her Bachelor of Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2011 and is part of LA CUMBIA COLLECTIVE with filmmaker Patricio Blanche.
Thursday, July 4th, 2024
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
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