Interview With Amyra Leon

Photo: Graham Morrison

Amyra Leon is an author, musician, playwright, and activist. Her work transcends genre and medium and focuses on black liberation, politics, and communal healing. In this interview with Vale Rendón, Amyra shares about her book, Concrete Kids, her encounter with language, memories, communal healing, and more.

Interview ​by
Hector "Vale" Rendón
​10/1/2020

Hector "Vale" Rendón (Mazatlán, México) is a publisher, writer, academic, and journalist. He has written three novels and has lived in five different countries. During his years as a journalist, he worked for more than a decade as editor, foreign correspondent, TV reporter, multimedia reporter, and editor-in-chief for several media outlets. Then he joined academia and has worked teaching and doing research at higher education institutions for eight years; his main areas of academic study are focused on media narratives about minorities in different social contexts. Throughout his life he has received several awards and grants that support both his academic and creative work.​

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