oin us at 18th Street Casa de Cultura for a keynote address from critically-acclaimed author Alejandra Oliva on this year’s festival theme, Saturation/ Saturación. Oliva will read from her recent memoir, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration (Astra House, 2023) and join author and Lit & Luz alum Juan Martinez in conversation.

Meet the author after the event for a book signing and a complimentary cafecito reception courtesy of Dark Matter Coffee and Bittersweet Pilsen to celebrate the beginning of the festival week.

Alejandra Oliva is an essayist, embroiderer and translator. She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Whiting Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, nominated for a Pushcart prize, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship.