VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
RIVERA: One of my first readings was held at a music festival. I think I literally read gibberish because no one could hear me above the rock band playing next door.
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on March 5, 2019, and The Education of Margot Sanchez, available now in bookstores everywhere. Her work has appeared in Lenny Letter, Tin House, Los Angeles Times, and Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles.
Come see Lilliam read at La Bodega Gallery in San Diego on Saturday, September 29 at 7pm