Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold a Plains Writers Series on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.

This Plains Writers Series will feature Iliana Rosabal-Pérez. The reading will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College and will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.

ABOUT THE READER:

Iliana Rosabal-Pérez is a poet, essayist, and researcher. She was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1970. She earned a degree in Hispanic Philology (Santiago de Cuba, 1993) and a master’s degree in Cuban and Caribbean Studies (2004) from the Universidad de Oriente. She was a professor of Art, Literature, Spanish Language and Tourism Communication at the Universidad de Oriente for twenty-two years. She was a jury member of literary and audiovisual contests, an organizer of film and literature events, a publisher, scriptwriter, and host of radio shows. She double majored in Spanish and Digital Film Production and minored in Communication Studies at Wayne State College. She is a member of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. She has received several mentions and awards in literary contests, including the Grand Prize for Poetry at the “Palma Real” Contest in Torino, Italy (2001) and the Second Prize of the Jury in the XIV Floral Games, Santiago de Cuba (2009). Her essays and research work have been published in Cuban cultural and academic journals. She has published two collections of poems Escrituras del límite (Scriptures of the Limit, Santiago de Cuba, 2007) and Lluvia en las dunas (Rain on the Dunes, Houston, TX, 2019), and the artistic essay “Seven Sculptors of Santiago de Cuba” (Trinidad and Tobago, 2010). She is currently a Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant at UNL.