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Camila Sosa Villada
Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls (published as THE QUEENS OF SARMIENTO PARK in the UK), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro and will be translated into seventeen languages.

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Afternoon Tea

Fiction

January 2023

Camila Sosa Villada

TR. Kit Maude

Fiction

January 2023

‘Grandma… Why are we brown?’   The grandmother puts down the rifle she’s been cleaning. Another rifle and a box of ammunition are sitting...

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Prize Entry

April 2015

Every Woman to the Rope

Joanna Quinn

Prize Entry

April 2015

My father believed the sea to be covetous: a pleading dog that would lap at you adoringly, sidling up...

Interview

September 2015

Interview with Allison Katz

Frances Loeffler

Interview

September 2015

With the desire to get to know an artist’s work comes the impulse to stick one’s nose in. The...

Interview

November 2015

Interview with Dor Guez

Helen Mackreath

Interview

November 2015

Dor Guez, artist, scholar, photographer, archivist, wants to avoid being classified, but it’s difficult not to fall into the...

 

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