Birds and Barrio Ecologies with Marisol Cortez
October 22 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Please join us for the third event in the 2026-27 Arts + Ecology Series featuring artist, Marisol Cortez
Rooted in San Antonio, Marisol Cortez writes across genre about place and power for all the other borderwalking weirdos out there. She is
author of the award-winning South Texas cli-fi novel Luz at Midnight (FlowerSong Press 2020) and two books of poetry, The Bird Church
(Finishing Line Press 2025) and I Call on the Earth (Double Drop Press 2019), a chapbook bearing witness to the forced removal of Mission
Trails Mobile Home Community. She teaches creative writing at the University of Texas San Antonio and serves as Creative Editor for
Deceleration, a grassroots media project that covers environmental justice thought, praxis, and art for South Texas. Other projects and
publications can be found at mcortez.net.
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