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.
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.
