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Join us for a conversation with two writers tackling the challenges of being a woman in the modern world. How do we negotiate racism and sexism? How do we raise children? How do we respond to the current policies around children, families, and immigration? All are welcome.
Victoria Buitron is a writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut.
She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University.
Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner.
In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
She has been the series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023.
Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications, VONA and more organizations have championed her work through grants or writing residencies.
Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, is 2025's VersoFrontera inaugural prize winner and will be published by Texas Review Press.
Julie Sarkissian is the author of Dear Lucy, published by Simon and Schuster and nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Her essays, short fiction and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, and Flavorwire, among others.
Born and raised in Southern California, she has a BA in English from Princeton and an MFA from The New School.
She is an instructor at the Westport Writers Workshop where she teaches fiction, memoir.
Through the workshop's outreach program she has taught at organizations that support under-resourced populations such as STAR, The Caroline House, and The Malta House.
She is also the co-organizer of the Westport Writers Workshop Pitch & Publish Conference.
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