Gloria Muñoz is the author of They Called Us Wicked and of the poetry collection Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry. She is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow, a Hedgebrook Fellow, an Esperimento Sul Respiro Fellow, a Macondista, a Highlights Foundation Diverse Verse Fellow, and a part of Las Musas. Her debut novel, This Is the Year, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults title and winner of the International Literacy Association’s Young Adult Book Award, was hailed as “brilliantly layered” by Booklist in a starred review.
Reading for Escapism and Why We Get Lost in Our Favorite Worlds
Sponsored by Penguin Teen
American Theater—Cinema, 446 King St.
Moderated by Julian Winters with Sasha Peyton Smith, Gloria Munoz, F A Davidson, and I V Marie
Join us for an afternoon break of creativity, conversation, and coffee! Guest emcee Taylor Grothe will lead the afternoon's activities and special guest authors Alaa Al-Burkwari, Gloria Munoz, and Andrew Joseph White will junk journal along with us. All supplies will be provided and you can grab up some exciting Peachtree Teen ARCs.
Please note, Stars Bar does have a set of stairs to get up to. If you were hoping to attend this event and are unable to climb stairs, please email rachel@yallfest.org so we can make arrangements for you with the sponsor
I Feel Conflicted: Creating Friction for the Good of the Plot
Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Moderated by Adalyn Grace with Kendall Annette, Shannon Messenger, I V Marie, Gloria Munoz, and Teri Dederer

