Liliana Valenzuela
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Past Events

2021   Curated Conversations. John Espinoza interviews Liliana Valenzuela about her debut full-length poetry collection Codex of Love: Bendito Camino. Sponsored by Letras Latinas and The Writers Center. Details here.
 
2021   Virtual presentation of Martita, I Remember You with Sandra Cisneros and Liliana Valenzuela. Texas Book Festival. Details here.

2021   Podcast interview with Sandra Cisneros, Hablemos, escritoras, listen to podcast here. 

2021   Featured poet at the virtual Spanish Open Mic, National Latinx Writers Gathering. National Hispanic Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

2021   Guest lecturer at the Spanish Creative Writing class,  Professor Gabriela Polit. University of Texas at Austin.   

2021    Miembro del Jurado. Entrega de Premios. Concurso de Poesía, Premio Mujer Titana. La Revista Mujer y Latino Arts, Culture, and Education Organization (LACE). 
 
2021    Martita, te recuerdo book launch with Sandra Cisneros and Rigoberto González. The Center for Fiction. Brooklyn, New York. 
 
2021    Presentation of Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo. Liliana Valenzuela interviewed Sandra Cisneros via Zoom for Magic City Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma
 
2021    Keynote panel member. “The Marketplace of Translations: from Bookfairs to Bookstores.” Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, media and Mobility conference. Fung Global Fellows Program and Global History Lab. Princeton University. 

2021    Keynote panel member. Macondo and Gemini Ink featured panel “A Celebration of the Alebrijes de San Antonio,” with John Phillip Santos, Luis Rodríguez, Norma Cantú, and Gregg Barrios. AWP 2021, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
2021    Panelist. Latin American Women in Translation panel at AWP21.

2020    Liliana Valenzuela interviews Julia Alvarez at the Texas Book Festival.
 
2020    Codex of Love: Bendita ternura book launch at the Texas Book Festival.
 
2020    The Scheherezade Project, Episode #65, featuring a poetry reading by Liliana Valenzuela.
 
2020    FlowerSong Women’s Reading.
 
2020    Comala, Pueblo Blanco, International Poetry Festival.
 
2020    Codex of Love: Bendita ternura book launch at Malvern Books, with Jo Reyes-Boitel and Edward Vidaurre.
 
2020    Codex of Love: Bendita ternura book launch at BookWoman, hosted by Cindy Huyser.
 
2020    Codex of Love: Bendita ternura book launch at BookPeople, hosted by Celeste Guzmán Mendoza.
 
2020    Blast Your Own Breath, online poetry reading hosted by Tammy M. Gómez.


2020    AWP, The Alebrijes of San Antonio featured reading, Lila E. Crockett Theater, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
2020    VersoFrontera festival, Our Lady of the Lake University, RGV, Texas. 
 
2019    Translation panel member at the Congreso de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española, Córdoba, Argentina. 
 
2019    Conversation and Reading with Marian Schwartz, on International Translators Day,
            Malvern Books, Austin, Texas. 
 
2019    Conversation and Reading with Sandra Cisneros at the House Chamber of the Texas State Capitol, Texas Book Festival. Conversation later appeared in The Believer. 
 
2017    Bilingual reading with Sandra Cisneros to benefit the nonprofit Jóvenes Adelante, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
 
2016    Bilingual reading with Sandra Cisneros to benefit PEN America, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
 
2016    Featured reader at the International Translators Day celebration, Malvern Books, Austin, Texas.
 
2015    Featured reader with Pablo Miguel Martínez at Malvern Books, Austin, Texas. 
 
2015    Featured reader with Marian Haddad and Lyman Grant at the Round Rock Library, Round Rock, Texas.
 
2015    Featured reader at the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Tribute to Mexican Women, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas.
 
2013    Featured reader at the Huizache: the Magazine of Latino Literature’s 3rd issue launch. Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas. 
 
2013    Presentation on “Translingual Poetics” at the Austin Poetry Society meeting, Austin, Texas. 
 
2013    Poetry reading Cantar de Espejos at the Universidad Nacional de México, San Antonio, Texas campus. 
 
2013    Featured poet at KinCity Reading Series, The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
2013    Reading at the LongHouse Food Revival in Austin, Texas.
 
2013    Codex of Journeys book launch reading and book signing at BookPeople, Austin, Texas. 
 
2012    Bilingual poetry reading at the Hilton Bayfront, San Diego, California. 
 
2011    Transcultural poetry reading at Women and Fair Trade Festival, Austin, Texas. 
 
2012    Featured reader at Flor de Nopal Literary Festival, Austin, Texas.
 
2012    Poetry reading at the University of Texas at Austin, part of CantoMundo. 
 
2011    Multilingual reading at Women and Fair Trade Festival, Austin, Texas. 
 
2010    Reading at Poetry in the Plaza, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas. 
 
2010    Featured reader at the Austin Poetry Society’s Fourth Thursday Open Mic, NewWorldDeli, Austin, Texas. 
 
2010    Reading at the Austin International Poetry Festival. 
 
2010    Featured poet at Austin Community College’s Literary Coffehouse. Austin Java. 
            Austin, Texas.
 
2009    Featured poet at BookWoman, Austin, Texas. 
 
2009    Collaborative reading with Cristina García, as part of The Big Read program, Austin Community College, Mainstage Theater, Austin, Texas.
 
2009    Reading at the Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
 
2009    Performance with the Bread & Puppet Theater, Johnson, Vermont. 
 
2009    “Café Nostalgia” reading at Casa Navarro, San Antonio, Texas, as part of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
 
2009    Participated in panel “Inspiration: The First Glimmer of a Book Idea” at the Writers’ League of Texas. Austin, Texas. 
 
2009    Luminaria Arts Festival, representing the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. San Antonio, Texas. 
            
2008    “Reading the World” presentation at BookPeople. Austin, Texas.
 
2008    Bilingual reading with Cristina García of Las caras de la suerte. BookPeople. Austin, Texas.
 
2007    Bilingual reading with Alex Espinoza at the Chicano & Latino Writers Festival. Saint Paul Public Library. Saint Paul, Minnesota.
 
2007    Featured poet at the multimedia conference Recharging the Sensorium, as part of the winners and finalists of the inaugural PanLiterary Awards, sponsored by www.drunkenboat.com. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. 
 
2007    Bilingual reading with Alex Espinoza of Los santos de Agua Mansa. BookPeople. Austin, Texas.
 
2006    Presentation at the Words and Music Festival. New Orleans, Louisiana. 
 
2006    Bilingual reading with Nina Marie Martínez at the Chicano & Latino Writers Festival. Saint Paul Public Library. Saint Paul, Minnesota. 
 
2006    Poetry reading and presentation of One Wound for Another/Una herida por otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace (11 de septiembre de 2001-11 de marzo de 2002), eds. Claire Joysmith and Clara Lomas. Resistencia Bookstore. Austin, Texas.
 
2006    Bilingual reading and presentation with Sandra Cisneros at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. Mexico City.
 
2006    Bilingual reading with Sandra Cisneros at the XVI Feria Internacional del Libro, and presentation with Claire Joysmith of the book One Wound for Another/Una herida por otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace (11 de septiembre de 2001-11 de marzo de 2002), eds. Claire Joysmith and Clara Lomas. Monterrey, Mexico.
 
2006    Participated in “How to Publish your Book” and “Spanish Language Books in the U.S. Market” panels. International Book Fair. Dallas, Texas.
 
2006    Featured essayist at the special Indiana Review reading in support of their Latino/Latina summer issue. Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana.
 
2006    Oh!rmones/Oh!rmonas. Text: Rebecca Tassi and Liliana Valenzuela. Performed by: Alejandra Murga, Rebecca Tassi and Liliana Valenzuela. Music by: Alex Coke (sax) and Susie Mauldin (bass). Frontera Fest. Hyde Park Theater. Austin, Texas. 
 
2006    Bilingual reading with Nina Marie Martínez and original poetry reading at at ¡La Voz Latina! A Celebration of Latino Authors. Little Rock, Arkansas.
 
2005    Featured poet at Latina Letters: The Tenth Annual Conference on Latina Literature and Identity. St. Mary’s University. San Antonio, Texas. 
 
2005    Bilingual reading with Nina Marie Martínez at the Texas Book Festival. Austin, Texas. 
 
2005    Bilingual reading with Denise Chávez and poetry reading at the Border Book Festival. Mesilla, New Mexico.
 
2005    Bilingual reading with Nina Marie Martínez and original poetry reading at ¡La Voz Latina! A Celebration of Latino Authors. Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
 
2005    Oh!rmones/Oh!rmonas. Text: Rebecca Tassi and Liliana Valenzuela. Performed by: Alejandra Murga, Rebecca Tassi and Liliana Valenzuela. Music: Esteban García. Premiere. AXTYRX. San Antonio, Texas.
 
2003    Presentation on translation at Publishing Latino Voices: A National Conference for Book Publishers. Sponsored by the Association of American Publishers. New York City.
 
2001    Invited poet to the IX Encuentro de Mujeres Poetas en el País de las Nubes.
Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico. Poetry readings in Mexico City, Oaxaca City, and several Oaxacan towns. 
 
2002    Featured poet at Palabras: a Latino Literary Festival. Austin, Texas.
 
2000    Featured poet in the Hispanic Voices segment of the Austin International Poetry Festival. Austin, Texas.
 
1999    PEN World in Translation Month reading at Border Books. Austin, Texas.
 
1997    “El arroyo de la Llorona y otros cuentos: A Bilingual Reading in Two Voices”
            Reading with Sandra Cisneros. Cinco de Mayo program. San Antonio Central Library. San Antonio, Texas.
 
1996    Reading from El arroyo de la Llorona y otros cuentos. BookPeople. Austin, Texas.
 
1991    Lamb, Lamb, Lamb. Participant in the large group workshop performance. Choreographed and directed by Deborah Hay. Vortex Theater. Austin, Texas.
 
Since 1986, I have participated in bilingual poetry and short story readings, as well as literary translation readings in many venues, including: Barnes & Noble, Borders Books, Austin Book Fair Poetry Tent, MexicArte, Women & Their Work, Museo del Barrio, Chameleons Coffee House, Twigg Bookstore, Vortex Theater, KAZI Radio, Red Bluff Studio, Half-Price Books and others. 


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