An Evening with Bessie Flores Zaldívar

Join the Interlochen Arts Academy Creative Writing Division as they host a reading, Q&A session, and signing with novelist Bessie Flores Zaldívar.

Bessie Flores Zaldívar (all pronouns) is a queer writer from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Their debut young adult novel, Libertad, was awarded the Pura Belpré Honor by the American Library Association and has been named a best book of 2024 by Kirkus Review, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Public Library, among others. Bessie received an MFA in fiction from Virginia Tech. She is a professor of creative writing at Quinnipiac University and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.