Yesika Salgado
UW Union South-The Sett 1308 W. Dayton St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Yesika Salgado
The UW-Madison Latinx Cultural Center welcomes Yesika Salgado as Latinx Heritage Month keynote speaker. Salgado is the author of several books of poetry (most recently the 2019 collection Hermosa), a past National Poetry Slam performer, and co-founder of the Los Angeles feminist poetry collective Chingona Fire. She will read from her work and share some of her life story during a talk and meet-and-greet.
media release: Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city, and her fat body. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Univision, CNN, NPR, and many other platforms. She is an internationally recognized body-positive advocate, writer of the column Suelta for Remez and contributor to refinery29’s Latine platform Somos. Yesika is the author of the best-sellers Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa.
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