Join us on Monday, June 23rd at the Civitella Castle for Sara Daniele Rivera & Hasanthika Sirisena Presentations. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.
Sara Daniele Rivera
Academy of American Poets Affiliated Fellow
Writing, USA
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban Peruvian American artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her writing has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Solstice, Waxwing, Plume, The Commuter, and elsewhere. She is a co-translator of The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) and co-editor of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes, won the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award and was published by Graywolf Press. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hasanthika Sirisena
Writing, Sri Lanka/USA
Hasanthika Sirisena’s fiction, essays, and comics have appeared in Nautilus Magazine, Electric Literature, Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, WSQ, and have been anthologized in This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017). They are the author of the short story collection The Other One (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016). Their essay collection Dark Tourist (Ohio State University/Mad Creek Press, 2021) won the Gournay Prize and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award.
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
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