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Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| August 12, 2024
Javier Zamora on Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| March 4, 2024
Javier Zamora on Never Forgetting the Journey
On Sun Valley Writers’ Conference’s Beyond the Page
By
Sun Valley Writers' Conference
| February 26, 2024
26 new paperbacks on shelves this June!
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| May 31, 2023
Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration
From His New Memoir
Solito
By
Javier Zamora
| October 5, 2022
Javier Zamora: You Can't Simply Make Art From Your Trauma to Heal Yourself
This Week on
The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
By
The Literary Life
| September 9, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Javier Zamora Talks About His Unaccompanied Migration From El Salvador to California at the Age of Nine
By
Keen On
| September 6, 2022
What Did You Read This Year
That You Loved?
By
Literary Hub
| December 18, 2020
The Joys and Worries of 20 Writers During COVID-19
By
Christopher Soto
| April 30, 2020
Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration
Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's
Children of the Land
By
Javier Zamora
| January 24, 2020
Some of Our Favorite Writers on the Best Books They Read in 2019
Lydia Davis, Barry Lopez, Tommy Orange, Valeria Luiselli and Other
Freeman's
Contributors Share Highlights From Their Year in Reading
By
Freeman's
| December 20, 2019
'Columbine,' A Poem by Javier Zamora
"Though there had been war; I did not know the way to school yet."
By
Javier Zamora
| October 3, 2019
More than forty cities are hosting protest readings for migrant justice tomorrow night.
By
Corinne Segal
| September 3, 2019
Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds
Javier Zamora on How Poetry Helped Him Break the Silence
By
Javier Zamora
| April 12, 2019
Citizenship By Javier Zamora
Part Three of the American Academy of Poets Weeklong Poetry & the Body Series
By
Javier Zamora
| March 20, 2018
Opioids and Refugees: Why Not Poetry?
William Brewer and Javier Zamora on Writing For Damaged Communities
By
Literary Hub
| September 21, 2017
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"