Emilly Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. She is the author of Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), an essay collection called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine and a winner of a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, a 2021 bronze winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Essays, and several other honors. She is also the author of Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a youth non-fiction book at the intersections of identity and U.S. history. As journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have appeared in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, Oxygen, and The Oregonian. She has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the 2018 Emerging Journalists Community Stories Fellowship (presented by Oregon Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Pulitzer Prizes), and the Randolph College MFA. Emilly is a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alum, previous writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Guapamacátaro, and Sou’Wester, and is a co-founder of BIPOC arts non-profit, Portland in Color. Emilly has worked with students of all ages in settings such as public high schools, universities, MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, and literary organizations including Tin House, Lighthouse, Corporeal Writing, Literary Arts, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. She teachwa creative writing at Pacific Northwest College of Arts’ MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Critical Studies. When not writing, teaching, or organizing, Emilly moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latiné DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more at emillyprado.com or on social media @emillygprado. For all inquiries, please email Emilly directly at emillygprado@gmail.com.