An Extremely Lit Literary Panel

What if we interviewed authors while they ate increasingly hot salsa? Does this sound like a bad idea?

If you’ve ever watched Hot Ones, the enormously popular Youtube series featuring celebrities being grilled as they attempt to eat diabolically hot chicken wings, you’ll know this is, in fact, an EXCELLENT idea. Come watch as moderator Alex Temblador interviews 3 local writers as they sample some local salsas that will have their tastebuds feeling *extremely* lit.

Amanda Churchill is the author of The Turtle House (Harper Books). Her work has been featured in Lit Hub, Hobart Pulp, Witness and other outlets. She was a Writer’s League of Texas 2021 Fellow, has received support from Tin House and Community of Writers, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of North Texas. She lives in Keller, Texas, with her family.

Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the 2018 Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize. Her poetry has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from POETRY Magazine, the New Yorker, and the American Poetry Review, as well as the 2025 Best American Poetry anthology. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as the 2023 Nadya Aisenberg fellowship from MacDowell. She is an assistant professor in the English department at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches creative writing and edits a line of poetry for Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press.

A. Kendra Greene is author of the illuminated essay collections No Less Strange or Wonderful and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. She became an essayist under the auspices of a Fulbright grant to Korea, and a book artist at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, collected as far away as Qatar, translated into French and German, and vended from the White Rock Zine Machine for 25 cents a pop. Her nonfiction appears in publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, including Freeman’s, The Guardian, Nautilus, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. After fellowships at Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab, Yaddo, MacDowell, Dobie Paisano, and The American Library in Paris, she currently teaches epistolary literature as Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri.

Alex Temblador is the award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own, Half Outlaw, and Secrets of the Casa Rosada. Her creative writing has appeared in anthologies like Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, as well as literary journals like Colorado Review, PALABRITAS, D Magazine, and more. Alex is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, The Daily Beast, Architectural Digest, National Geographic, Outside, and more.