Huascar Medina - The Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series

The Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series at Columbia College Chicago is one of the most dynamic,
aesthetically diverse events of its kind in the city. Hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department, the
series attracts prestigious, award-winning fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers who perform, engage,
and educate on a myriad of topics and traditions.
Huascar Medina is the Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2022). Medina also serves as literary editor of seveneightfive, Topeka's local arts and entertainment magazine. He's a member of Topeka's Speak Easy Poetry Group, Red Tail Collective, and Latino Writers Collective.
Recent works appear in the Latino Book Review (2019), Finding Zen in Cowtown (Spartan Press 2017), and Kansas Time & Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkan Press 2017). Ad Astra Theatre Ensemble selected Medina's play, "Theodore's Love" for the 2018 Homegrown Playwright Project. Medina's first collection of poems, How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press 2017), received the 2018 Topeka ArtsConnect Arty Award for Literature and his second collection, Un Mango Grows in Kansas, earned high praise from Traci Brimhall, who compares Medina to Neruda, and describes the collection as "a lyric catalog of losses but also the joy that comes from carrying our islands and ancestors with us."

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