Sun, Sep 13
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Désirée Zamorano, Amarisa's Cooking Pot & Michelle Otero, Vessels
Désirée and Michelle will be joined by Margo Chávez-Charles for a conversation about the magic of words, the power of writing communities, and the importance of Latina representation in literature.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 4:30 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Order Amarisa's Cooking Pot ($26.95, paperback) and Vessels ($18.00, paperback) online from CWB or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders
Amarisa’s Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders is a riveting collection whose worlds collide and connect between the fantastic and the ordinary. Startling in their breadth and depth, these stories range from the quietly desperate to the gloriously fantastical, representing Mexican American culture among the characters who are guided by gifts of enchantment or confronted with illusory events shaped by deeply human and enlightening emotions.
Each story is dedicated to capturing something ineffable, an emotional truth, a moment of beauty or realization, a moment of calm, or a spark of fury. What does it mean to be alive in a capricious world? Désirée Zamorano allows readers to explore this…