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Please join The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at UNLV for a reading with Spring 2024 Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera, with an introduction by BMI PhD Fellow Heather Peterson.
After the reading, stay for a book signing and reception in Segue.
Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel
Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of
¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Julián's received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts, Black Mountain Institute, Creative Work Fund, Hedgebrook, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, to name a few. They are the former executive director of
RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating queer history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in San Francisco.
This program is funded in part by a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.