Our night of poetry was a packed event! We filled the room and even had to pull out extra chairs to accommodate all our guests. The night began with readings by emerging writers from Dan Vera and Kim Shuck’s afternoon workshop, which was held earlier that day. The evening continued with readings by Imaniman poets reflecting on fronteras, identity, art, and Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry and writing. Throughout the event, guests enjoyed appetizers and beverages from La Mediterranée

Nalini Iyer writes about how monumental Good Girls Marry Doctors is to South Asian American women’s history. Nalini Iyer is a professor of English at Seattle University with an emphasis on Postcolonial studies and South Asia. “In 1993, Aunt Lute Books published an anthology of South Asian American women’s writing, Our Feet Walk the Sky. This anthology is recognized as a pioneering one that helped articulate South Asian American women’s diverse experiences as first and second-