Celebrating Food & Community: A Benefit for Rainier Valley Food Bank
On February 7th at 6:30 PM, stories will fill the room, music will lift our spirits, and our community will come together.
Join Hugo House, Bushwick Book Club, Claudia Castro Luna, and Rainier Valley Food Bank for an evening that celebrates connection and gives back. Every story shared, every note played, and every moment spent together helps support Rainier Valley Food Bank. Be part of something meaningful.
Click here to support Rainier Valley Food Bank today and make a difference.
The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.Claudia Castro Luna
Claudia Castro Luna is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022); One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press, 2020 & 2022); Killing MarÃas (Two Sylvias, 2017) finalist for the WA State Book Award 2018, and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge, 2016). She served as Washington’s State Poet Laureate (2018-2021) and as Seattle's inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2017). She was named Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2019. Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage). Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, she writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.Â
