Gemini Ink and the Macondo Foundation’s joint First Friday reading brought in quite the crowd. Macondo writer Rachel Jennings and Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral 2009 award recipient Emmy Peréz read from their respective books of poetry and stayed following the event with Macondo Foundation founder Sandra Cisneros to sign copies of their works.

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Gemini Ink and the Macondo Foundation team up for a special First Friday reading with Macondo writer Rachel Jennings and Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral 2009 award recipient Emmy Peréz. Macondo Foundation founder Sandra Cisneros will introduce both writers during the reading.

Rachel Jennings earned a B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an M.A.and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, she received the Rockefeller Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She has published poems in several publications, including La Voz de Esperanza, Appalachian Journal, Struggle, Blue Collar Review, RE:AL, Concho River Review, Red River Review, Nantahala Review, and the San Antonio Express-News. She published a chapbook, Hedge Ghosts, at LaNana Creek Press in 2003. In 2008, she published a book of poetry, Elijah’s Farm, at Pecan Grove Press. Currently, she teaches composition and literature at San Antonio College.

Emmy Pérez is the author of a poetry collection, Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003). She holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, New York Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and the anthologies The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and The Weight of Addition: an anthology of Texas Poetry. She is a contributing editor for The Writer’s Chronicle, Latino Poetry Review, and Texas Books in Review. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Texas-Pan American in the Rio Grande Valley.

What: First Friday Reading
When: Friday, Feb. 5, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa