The second Spring cohort bonded beautifully and enlightened us in many ways. Thank you for sharing your time and your work with us, Priscilla Ybarra, Achy Obejas, and Samantha Culp. We look forward to reading more of your future writing!
Priscilla is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of North Texas, where she teaches Chicanx literature and environmental humanities. She is co-editor of Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Priscilla’s book, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment, won the 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Award. At Mesa, Priscilla worked on a book tracing the history of Latina ecological knowledge caretakers.
Havana-born author and translator, Achy authored Boomerang/Bumerán, a unique bilingual collection of poetry written in a mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She is a recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship and was named a 2024 May and Jack Elinson Public Health Fellow. At Mesa, she worked on a collection of poems in English and Spanish exploring family and gender identity.
Based in Los Angeles after a decade in China, Samantha is a writer and filmmaker. She produced the Netflix documentary series The Confession Tapes and Exhibit A and co-wrote and produced the documentary podcast The Beige Room for Pineapple Street Media. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on a forthcoming nonfiction book about the global history of "the future" as a cultural concept and its transformation into a commercial industry.
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