UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Xochitl Gonzalez, Latinx Voices Are American Voices, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17 at UCSB’s Campbell Hall.

Pulitzer Prize finalist, cultural critic, producer and screenwriter Gonzalez is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and the author of its newsletter Brooklyn, Everywhere, about class, gentrification and the American Dream.

Her debut novel “Olga Dies Dreaming” was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New York Times, TIME magazine, The Washington Post and NPR.

Her new book “Anita de Monte Laughs Last” was released in March 2024 and was chosen as the March pick of Reese’s Book Club.

Gonzalez writes with love about Latinx issues, bringing nuance and complexity to stories about class, labor and culture laced with wry humor and filled with abundant moral clarity.

Tickets are $20/free for UCSB students (current student ID required). For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Prior to writing, Gonzalez was an entrepreneur, fundraiser and all-around hustler for nearly 20 years. She is a board member of the Lower East Side Girls Club and the Brooklyn Public Library, and a trustee of the corporation of Brown University, where she received her B.A. in Visual Art.