Listeners, we're back this week with Elisabet Velasquez.

Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer born in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Latina Magazine, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and more. Her debut novel, WHEN WE MAKE IT, has been selected as an Indie Next selection and The New York Times named it as a new and upcoming book to watch for. You can find it wherever books are sold.
 
During our conversation, we talked about:

• Growing up poor
• Discovering writing
• Poetry
• Elisabet's lineage and healing when going to Puerto Rico
• Writing as a career
• And so much more!

 
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Relevant Timetamps:
5:48 - Her grandparent's immigration story
11:51 - Her parents
15:07 - Going to Puerto Rico
16:31 - 'In Puerto Rico I was Americana'
17:47 - Visiting her grandmother
21:02 - Writing
24:22 - Our stories were important
35:06 - Education and writing 'contra la corriente'
36:57 - Being a statistic
38:51 - Nuyorican Poets Cafe
43:51 - Poetry
44:54 - 'Poetry to me is...'
46:53 - Professional Spanish
 
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