Join us for an evening with Maria Kelson, poet and author of Not the Killing Kind, a contemporary thriller about a Latina education reformer whose son is wrongfully jailed for murder.
Kelson will read and be in conversation with ND PhD candidate Paulina Hernández-Trejo. She will also participate in a luncheon colloquium on campus with interested MFA candidates on March 5.
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Maria Kelson has two collections of poetry (as Maria Melendez) with University of Arizona Press, which were finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. Not the Killing Kind is her debut novel. It received the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.
A former Santa Fe Arts Institute and Hedgebrook resident, she has given readings and workshops at campuses and literary festivals around the U.S. and served as an American Voices arts envoy in Bogotá, Colombia. Born in Arizona, raised in northern California, she has lived in one southeastern, three midwestern, and five western states. Connect at mariakelson.com.
Book signing to follow. Book sales provided by Brain Lair Books.
To check out Not the Killing Kind at SJCPL, click here. To check out Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology, click here.
This program is presented in partnership with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025. Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home is directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emerson Collective.