Book Talk with CUNY BA Alumna Pennell Somsen [IN-PERSON EVENT]

Event details Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Campus: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Type: Lectures About this event Join us for an in-person event. A book talk with CUNY BA Alumna Pennell Somsen, translator of Medusa reina (Ficticia, 2025) Author Roberto Azcorra Cámara delves into the intimacy of relationships to reveal how, even through misfortune, a path remains, sometimes luminous, sometimes dark, always unexpected. CUNY BA Alumna and translator of Medusa reina, Pennell Somsen, joins our author in conversation moderated by Graduate Center Professor Esther Allen. Date and Time: Thursday, September 17, 2026, at 3:00 PM Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY in Midtown Manhattan 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Room: Kelly Skylight Room (Ninth Floor) Building Entrance Policy: To enter the Graduate Center, all students, faculty, and staff are required to show a valid CUNY ID at the front desk. Non-CUNY visitors are required to show a government-issued photo ID upon entering the building. RSVP HERE Bios Roberto Azcorra Cámara is a Mexican fiction writer and university professor. He is the author of two short story collections: Medusa reina (2025) and Disparados a la luna (2009), both published by Ficticia. English translations of his work have been published in various journals. His fiction has also appeared in La Casa ciega, vol. 5 (EDAF, Madrid, 2006). In 2002, he compiled Litoral del relámpago , an anthology of contemporary Yucatecan literature. In 1999, he received the Premio Nacional Carmen Báez in Morelia. He co-authored the play El Quijote, Historias andantes , which premiered in 2019 and won Best Dramaturgy at FESTITIM in 2022. Esther Allen is a writer, translator, and professor at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her translation of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto won the National Translation Award for Prose in 2017. Her essays, translations, and interviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books , The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review , Words Without Borders , Bomb , LitHub , The New Yorker , and other publications. Official event details: https://events.cuny.edu/cec/cunyba-book-talk-pennell-somsen-alumni/