November 11, 2026 @ 5:30 PM
Black Box Theater, Ballard Institute, Storrs Center, 1 Royce Circle
Sponsored by the UConn Creative Writing Program.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, educator, and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, and a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including, Four Way Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and elsewhere.
This event is a benefit for the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic, CT. Audience members are invited to make a donation before or after the reading.
For more information, contact: Kyle Labe at creativewriting@uconn.edu