Please join SWWIM for an intimate conversation with visiting writer (and Miami homegirl) Emma Trelles. This event will take place in the library; wine and cheese will be served.

About the artist:

Emma Trelles is the author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press) — winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, a finalist for Foreword Indies poetry book of the year, and a recommended read by The Rumpus. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry, Best of the Net, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, and others. Her poems have recently appeared in Spillway, SWWIM, The Miami Rail, The Los Angeles Review, and Zocalo Public Square. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and lives with her husband in California, where she programs the Mission Poetry Series.