Puerto Del Sol at New Mexico State University kindly invites you to an afternoon reading featuring MFA-Fiction candidate Natalie Streander, followed by writer and artist, Lehua M. Taitano on Friday, April 29th at 5:30 p.m. at NMSU’s HSS Annex Auditorium.

Lehua M. Taitano is a CHamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam) and co-founder of Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. She is the author of two volumes of poetry—Inside Me an Island and A Bell Made of Stones. Her chapbook, appalachiapacific, won the Merriam-Frontier Award for short fiction. She has two recent chapbooks of poetry and visual art: Sonoma and Capacity. Her poetry, essays, and Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction have been published internationally. She is the recipient of a 2019 Eliza So Fellowship and the 2019 Summer Poet-in-Residence at The Poetry Center at The University of Arizona.

Natalie Streander is a writer and filmmaker in Las Cruces, NM. She is the co-owner of PsychDesert Productions, a video production company. She is both a fiction writer and screenwriter and has produced films of works she's written, as well as an international documentary, and other short films, music videos, and commercials.

Please feel free to email Philip Perry at sperry44@nmsu.edu with any questions or concerns about the reading. We hope to see you there!