Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado is a writer, community organizer, and the former Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. When not writing or teaching, Emilly moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Her debut essay collection, Funeral for Flaca, was published with Future Tense Books in July 2021.
If you could recommend 3 books to anyone, what would they be?
What are you reading now?
I have a large stack of books to read as I'm an MFA candidate at Randolph College in the midst of my first semester. I'm currently reading Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz and Mean by Myriam Gurba. Next up are Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong and I’m Telling The Truth, But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi.