Sunday, September 7th
10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage

Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of I’ll Give You a Reason, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut short story collection. Named a best collection of 2024 by Electric Literature, I’ll Give You a Reason has been longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award and the Clark Fiction Prize. López’s work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, The Common, and TIME. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she was awarded the Joanna Leake Prize. She is working on a novel.