Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, The Clark Prize, The Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of an American Book Award, she is the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family’s stories from disappearing. She begins to have visions of her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory, bearing witness to sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In 1930’s Denver, Luz Lopez is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, is run out of town by a violent white mob. Recently, we met via Zoom to discuss craft and research ahead of the launch of her latest project, the historical novel Woman of Ligh t. Her humility and enthusiasm have been an anchor and inspiration. It’s been exciting to watch her career unfold from a grassroots self-promotion all the way to the short list for the National Book Award. She came to San Antonio, Texas for a series of events and filled auditoriums during Fiesta, a city wide celebration of diversity and culture. When I first met Kali Fajardo-Anstine, her short story collection Sabrina & Corina was on the verge of explosion. Woman of Light: An Interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine Patrick Stockwell
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