Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
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America s history is largely one of immigration, and the best way to learn about those experiences is to read stories by immigrants.
We ve rounded up 16 contemporary memoirs, non-fiction books, and anthologies by immigrant and refugee authors, including Ilhan Omar, Meredith Talusan, and Diane Guerrero.
America is defined by waves of immigration, with each individual story constituting a precious thread in its long and complicated history. Works by immigrant or refugee authors detail the tangible and intangible expeditions made by those who leave behind all they know.