Lara Mimosa Montes
Literary Event
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 12:15 – 1pm PDT
Mills College Performing Arts Online Event
Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at Mills College.
Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES, a meditation on the Bronx of the 70s and 80s, gentrification, trauma, and loss. Her work has appeared in Fence, BOMB, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken, Marble House Project, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy and lives in Minnesota.