Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and now lives in California. Her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree earned the silver medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

Join us for a public program on Thursday, April 30 at 6:00pm with NBF Presents: The Language of Home at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa’s Kuykendall 101 auditorium. Rojas Contreras will be joined on stage by Hawai‘i Poet Laureate Lee A. Tonouchi, author of Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai‘i Okinawan Journal, for readings and conversation on the relationship among family, migration, and art-making. The event will be moderated by Kristiana Kahakauwila, writer, educator, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. Books will be available for sale by the University of Hawai'i Mānoa Bookstore.