Fall Author Series - Emilly Prado

Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, educator, and DJ living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut essay collection, Funeral for Flaca, has been called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine and was a winner of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

In Funeral for Flaca, Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in a collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth.