Sabrina Vourvoulias

Sabrina Vourvoulias is the managing editor of Al Día News in Philadelphia, and was the editor of Al Día’s book 200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2012). Her news writing has garnered awards from the New York Press Association, Pennsylvania Newspapers Association and Philadelphia Press Association. She is the moderator of Al Día's "Media and the City: Pinging the Mainstream" panels on representations of race, ethnicity, gender and identity in Philadelphia media; the "In Conversation With" series of one-on-one interviews with national and state politicians; as well as the Al Día film series panel discussions. Vourvoulias was also one of the panelists for the 2014 Philly Tech Week "Re-inventing Philadelphia's Largest Multilingual News Website for a National Audience."   Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012), a speculative novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latin@ experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012.   Her short story “Collateral Memory” appeared in Strange Horizons in June 2013; “La Gorda and the City of Silver” appeared in the anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land (Holt and Leib, eds.) in February 2012; other short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction (Darrach and Jennings, eds.), and Crossed Genres Year Two, and upcoming in the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History and issue 7 of GUD magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Graham House Review (Balakian and Smith, eds.), Dappled Things, La Bloga’s Floricanto, Poets Respond to SB 1070, and Cabinet des Fées, and upcoming in the anthology In Other Words. Vourvoulias has been an invited panelist and presenter at Arisia 2013, and Readercon 2013 and 2014.   Her blog, Following the Lede, was a finalist for the Latinos in Social Media award in 2011.  

Immigration, the immigrant experience, undocumented immigrants, immigration trauma, humane borders, race, ethnicity, culture, intersectional feminism, Latina feminism, Latino identity, Latino representation in media, racial justice, social justice, justice and reconciliation, human rights, censorship, net neutrality, digital divide, Catholic Worker Houses, multilingual and multicultural journalism, long-form journalism, speculative fiction, magical realism, U.S. Latino arts and literature, Philadelphia, Guatemala, Latin America