Victoria Buitron MFA’20, who hails from Ecuador and lives in Connecticut, will share her journey as a writer and her award-winning 2022 debut book, A Body Across Two Hemispheres.
On Friday, Dec. 1 at 12:30 p.m. in St. Ambrose Hall, the Fairfield Bellarmine program will welcome author Victoria Buitron MFA’20 to Bellarmine Campus for a conversation about her career path as a writer and her award-winning memoir, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, published by Woodhall Press. This event is free and open to the public – all are invited to attend.
Buitron received her undergraduate degree from Hunter College CUNY, and is a 2022 graduate of Fairfield University's MFA in Creative Writing program. “Getting an opportunity to speak about my creative writing journey is always a delight and honor,” she said, “but even more so at the place that made it all come true. I’m ecstatic to get to spend an afternoon at Fairfield.”
Buitron is described on the Woodhall Press website as “a freelance writer and translator whose work delves into the intersections of identity and place, family history, and the moments her hippocampus refuses to forget.” Her debut collection of autobiographical essays tells the coming-of-age story of her search for home between Ecuador and Connecticut.
Author and editor-in-chief of (mac)ro(mic) Nick Olson reviewed A Body Across Two Hemispheres and described it as “a memoir that pushes the very limits of the medium, looking at what trauma writes in the story of a life—and the palimpsests that can be made after. Of family as a continuous act, a choice. Of love that defies state injustice and separation of time and place. These essays are groundbreaking, vital, revelatory.”
