Cold Thief Place

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Esther Lin will read at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 22, at 1:00 p.m. Location: Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8303.

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Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of Cold Thief Place, longlisted for the National Book Award, and The Ghost Wife, and she is co-editor of Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins 2024). Her work has been included in Best New Poets 2022 and the 2023 Best of the Net anthology. Currently, she is a critic-at-large for Poetry Northwest and co-organizes the Undocupoets.