Our Pascal Hall Authors Series kickoff for Summer 2025! Cocktails from 5-5:30, conversation from 5:30-6:30. A book signing and reception will follow. All events in this series are free and open to the public but registration is required. Click here for tickets!

Born in Ecuador and raised undocumented in New York City, author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio writes with candor and clarity about mental health, beauty, music, and the experiences of immigrants who live in this country without citizenship. A 2011 graduate of Harvard, her work has been published by the likes of The New York Times, Vogue and many other publications. Her first book, The Undocumented Americans (2020), a collection of essays that are part memoir, part reporting, has been greeted with enormous acclaim. Not only was it a finalist for the National Book Award, but the book was listed among Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020 and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.  She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale University.

Karla will be interviewed by Caitlin Shetterly, a Maine native and author of Pete and Alice in Maine, Modified, Made for You and Me, and Faultlines: Stories of Divorce.