Bestselling author Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl), debut author  and Woody and Gayle Hunt-Aspen Institute Fellowship Award recipient Yasmín Ramírez (¡Ándale, Prieta!), and Houston-based poet and playwright Jasminne Mendez (Islands Apart) gather to discuss their new memoirs.

Moderator: Sam Babiak, program director at Writers’ League of TexasJulissa Arce, Jasminne Mendez, Yasmín Ramírez, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation, Josefina’s Habichuelas / Las habichuelas de Josefina, ¡Ándale Prieta!, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American