Moderated by Carina del Valle Schorske and featuring Katelina “Gata” Eccleston, Elisa Gonzalez, Eva Recinos, and Alex Zaragoza, this panel conversation considers challenges and opportunities for solidarity among independent writers amidst changes in creative industries from magazines to Hollywood.
This panel takes place September 28, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm on the 4th floor of 20 Cooper Square.
Registration is required. Please RSVP via eventbrite.
Panelists
Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator. She has been published in many venues including The Believer, The New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She won a National Magazine Award for her cover story on grief and belonging on apocalyptic dance floors in 2021, and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2022. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead.
Katelina “Gata” Eccleston is an internationally renowned music historian/critic, artist, and culture expert recognized for her efforts in bridging the gap between Academia, the Latin music Industry, and the public through her critically acclaimed platform Reggaeton Con La Gata. RXG is the first Bilingual platform dedicated to the intersectional analysis, musicology, and History of Reggaeton Music. Her podcast Perreo 101 is the first Bilingual podcast in English and Spanish ever, and is regularly featured in Colleges worldwide. Her niche curations help shape the landscape of high profile Reggaeton related projects such as NEON by Netflix, De La Calle by Paramount Studios, Spotify Studios + Futuro Studios LOUD: The History of Reggaeton, and high-profile publications such as TIME, The Washington Post, Rollingstone, LA Times, NY Times Popcast and many more.
Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Grand Tour (FSG 2023). Her poetry and prose appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Drift and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rolex Foundation, and the U.S. Fulbright program. In 2020, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. She lives in Brooklyn.
Eva Recinos is an arts and culture journalist and creative non-fiction writer based in Los Angeles. Her reviews, features, and profiles have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, KCET, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Art21, Aperture, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Creative Independent and more. She was a 2019 nominee for the LA Press Club Awards in the category of Arts & Entertainment Feature (Online). Her essays have appeared in Refinery29, Gulf Coast, PANK, Blood Orange Review, Air/Light, Electric Literature and more. She was a 2021 finalist in the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship and a 2023 Tin House Winter Workshop attendee.
Alex Zaragoza is a television writer and journalist. She was raised on the U.S.-Mexico border, commuting from Tijuana to San Diego for school since age 12. Alex has written for publications like VICE, LA Times, and NPR, and is a writer on the critically acclaimed Amazon Freevee comedy “Primo” and NBC’s “Lopez v. Lopez.” She currently has a series based on her upbringing in development with Chernin Entertainment.