
Dos memorias: una lectura
Television producer Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) chronicles the pains and indignities of everyday life. In his

Paris is Still Burning
In the Lobby Lounge…Miami Book Fair & Reading Queer Inspired by the legendary documentary film Paris is Burning and the queer counterculture it documents, Paris

Paris is Still Burning
Inspired by the legendary documentary film “Paris is Burning” and the queer counterculture it documents, this performance showcases prominent contemporary queer poets of color whose

“FANTASY FEMINOMENON” – MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY
Believing in yourself is hard enough without saving the whole world on top of it all! Find out how much Amari is willing to sacrifice

HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots

LITERALLY LITERARY THRILLERS – FICTION
In JENNIFER CROFT’s The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel, eight translators visit a renowned author in a primeval Polish forest, who then mysteriously vanishes

SECRETS & SECOND CHANCES – FICTION
LOUIS BAYARD’s The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts revolves around a fateful summer in the life of famous playwright Oscar Wilde as he was

POWER DYNAMICS & COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS – FICTION
MESHA MAREN’s Shae: A Novel is the story of a young couple in the heart of West Virginia: the title character, who is pregnant, and

RUPTURE & REPAIR: POETRY OF DISPLACEMENT & TRANSFORMATION
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN’s The Palace of Forty Pillars tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian

VIVIENDO TU MEJOR VIDA QUEER – MEMORIAS
Manboobs: Una memoria de musicales, visas, esperanza y pastel es la historia de coraje, amor y valentía de KOMAIL AIJAZUDDIN. Al crecer en Pakistán, avergonzado de su

MODALISTAS FLAMANTES, PASADO Y PRESENTE – NO FICCIÓN
El libro de SIMON DOONAN, *The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X*, rinde homenaje a todo lo «camp»: esa cualidad extraña y difícil de definir que comparten

A MESSY SURVIVAL, A REPRISE OF JOY: THE CRAFT OF POETRY
Miami Book Fair’s own inaugural Emerging Writer Fellow in Poetry GABRIEL RAMIREZ (2021) returns to the Magic City with his debut poetry collection, If Pit