Virtual Author Talk with Javier Zamora

On Childhood Migration from Central America: In Conversation with Javier Zamora, award-winning and New York Times Bestselling Author of 'Solito: A Memoir,' where a young poet, Zamora, tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this memoir of bravery, hope, and finding family.

 Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.