august, 2025
Event Details
Join us on August 7 for a rich literary conversation between Alejandro Puyana and Carrie R. Moore. Alejandro’s Freedom Is a Feast traces the reverberations of revolution, exile, and redemption across generations in Venezuela, while Carrie’s Make Your Way Home explores belonging, inheritance, and survival across the American South. Both authors examine how personal and political histories shape everyday lives, and how families hold together—or fall apart—under pressure. Together, they’ll read from their work and discuss the complicated terrain of home, the weight of memory, and what endures through love, loss, and change.
About the authors
Alejandro Puyana moved to the United States from Venezuela at the age of twenty-six. In 2022, he completed his MFA at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His debut novel, “Freedom Is a Feast,” won the Westport Prize for Literature. His work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, SwampPink among others, and his story “The Hands of Dirty Children” was selected for Best American Short Stories 2020. He lives with his wife and daughter in Austin, Texas.
Carrie R. Moore is the author of the story collection Make Your Way Home. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and other publications. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Community of Writers, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and was the inaugural fellow at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat in Sag Harbor, New York.
