Join us at the November 23rd Sunday Salon for a night of readings with four extraordinary women writers whose work moves across borders, bloodlines, and dreamscapes. Their stories navigate legacy, love, survival, and the strange beauty of becoming. Hear worlds you haven’t met yet. DJ DubSix returns to keep the grooves going. 5pm. Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Krystal Anali Vazquez is a writer and an attorney from Los Angeles living in Brooklyn. Her work navigates the roads in the México lindo of her family’s past and present with those above the border. She holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown, and Columbia Law School. At Georgetown, she was a fellow in the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. As part of her legal practice, she is a member of her firm’s team that defends the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Lady without Land (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected as the winner of The 2023 George Garrett Fiction Prize by Manuel Muñoz as well as a 2025 International Latino Book Awards Finalist – The Isabel Allende Most Inspiring Fiction Book Award, is her first novel. She is currently at work on a poetry collection.
Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and film director whose work has shown in theaters, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Lincoln Center. Her feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story is available on Apple TV, Amazon, and other platforms. Christine is a founder of (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for unproduced film scripts. Her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, Audience Askew, Rock Salt Journal, and others. Her debut collection of short stories, The Only Way Out Is Through the Window, was published in July 2025 by Rebel Satori Press.
A native Detroiter, Rita Woods is the award-winning author of three books: Remembrance, The Last Dreamwalker, and The Edge of Yesterday, and has been twice named one of Chicago’s top 50 Artists. Remembrance was the recipient of the AALBC Award for fiction and the Hurston-Wright Literary Award. The Last Dreamwalker won the Midland Author Award for Speculative Fiction and was chosen as the Chicago Writer’s Association Fiction Book of the Year. A Board-Certified Internist, Rita is the Medical Director of a men’s maximum-security prison. She lives with her family in suburban Chicago where she serves as a trustee on her town’s library board. She loves travel, coffee and cemeteries, though not necessarily in that order.
Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Joyland, the Washington Square Review, and Literary Hub, among others. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgemental rescue dog, Ollie. Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar is her first novel.