The event begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities Building.
Wayne State College's Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to host the next installment of the 2024-25 Plains Writers Series on Wednesday, April 23, when Iliana Rosabal-Pérez will be the featured author. Admission is free and open to the public.
The reading will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of the Humanities Building at Wayne State. This event will be livestreamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
About Iliana Rosabal-Pérez
Iliana Rosabal-Pérez is a poet, essayist, and researcher. She was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1970. She earned a degree in Hispanic Philology (Santiago de Cuba, 1993), and a master’s degree in Cuban and Caribbean Studies (2004) from the Universidad de Oriente. She was a professor of art, literature, Spanish language, and tourism communication at the Universidad de Oriente for 22 years. She was a jury member of literary and audiovisual contests, an organizer of film and literature events, publisher, scriptwriter, and host of radio shows. She double majored in Spanish and Digital Film Production and minored in Communication Studies at Wayne State College.
Rosabal-Pérez is a member of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. She has received several mentions and awards in literary contests, including the Grand Prize for Poetry at the “Palma Real” Contest in Torino, Italy (2001), and the Second Prize of the Jury in the XIV Floral Games, Santiago de Cuba (2009). Her essay and research work has been published in Cuban cultural and academic journals.
Rosabal-Pérez has published two collections of poems Escrituras del límite (Scriptures of the Limit, Santiago de Cuba, 2007) and Lluvia en las dunas (Rain on the Dunes, Houston, TX, 2019) and the artistic essay “Seven Sculptors of Santiago de Cuba” (Trinidad and Tobago, 2010). She is currently a Spanish graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
About the Plains Writers Series
The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year at Wayne State and has been an integral part of the college’s history since 1977. This reading series generally features Great Plains authors and artists in a one or two-day event that is free and open to the public. The Plains Writers Series brings attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.
The Plains Writers Series provides a forum for Nebraska’s contemporary writers and poets to share their work with Nebraska readers. The content of the project is literature, especially that of rural Nebraska. Literature will be the entire focus of the series throughout the day in the form of readings, questions and answer sessions, one-on-one conversations between the audience members, and the authors presenting their work. Following the readings, a poetry or fiction slam is usually held in downtown Wayne.
For more information about the Plains Writers Series, contact Chad Christensen, managing editor of the WSC Press and director of the Plains Writers Series, at [email protected] or 402-375-7118, or visit www.wscpress.com.