Lights-On Salon Series

Enjoy conversation, connection, and community over light snacks and wine. Porchlight’s weeknight salon series provides a space for visiting writers, local artists, university students, and community members to engage in dialogue.

Nurit KASZTELAN (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of an honorable mention for the National Award for Literature from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and the poetry collections Movimientos Incorpóreos (2007), Lógica de los accidentes (2013), and Después (2018), which was published in English by Cardboard House Press as Awaiting Major Events (2021). She attended the Campo Garzon residency in Uruguay in 2022.

Thomas Mira y Lopez is the author of The Book of Resting Places (Counterpoint Press) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where he teaches writing and translation. He holds MFAs in creative writing (University of Arizona) and literary translation…