In-store event: Wildfire Reading Series featuring Yesenia Montilla and Raina J. León

Raina J. León,  PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape  ancestral lands). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre,  partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective  action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the  telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of humanizing  education. She seeks out communities of care and craft and is a member  of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, Cave Canem,  CantoMundo, Macondo. She is the author of black god mother this body, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, sombra : (dis)locate, and the chapbooks, profeta without refuge and Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self. She  publishes across forms in visual art, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and  scholarly work. She has received fellowships and residencies with the  Obsidian Foundation, Community of Writers, Montana Artists Refuge,  Macdowell, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio…