The fiction writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine is this year's winner of the Fred R. Brown Literary Award. She'll read from her work and join Pitt's own Angie Cruz for a conversation and Q & A. 

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. Sabrina & Corina has been selected as a campus one-read by the University of Colorado and Regis University. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2019 recipient of the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Hedgebrook. She has an MFA from the University of Wyoming and is from Denver, Colorado.